Molecular evolution of human coronavirus genomes

D Forni, R Cagliani, M Clerici, M Sironi - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
Human coronaviruses (HCoVs), including SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, are zoonotic
pathogens that originated in wild animals. HCoVs have large genomes that encode a fixed …

Recombination in viruses: mechanisms, methods of study, and evolutionary consequences

M Pérez-Losada, M Arenas, JC Galán, F Palero… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recombination is a pervasive process generating diversity in most viruses. It joins variants
that arise independently within the same molecule, creating new opportunities for viruses to …

Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, E Baquero, S Munier… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of SARS-CoV-2-related
viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats,,–, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG13 …

Divergent SARS-CoV-2 variant emerges in white-tailed deer with deer-to-human transmission

B Pickering, O Lung, F Maguire, P Kruczkiewicz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wildlife reservoirs of broad-host-range viruses have the potential to enable evolution of viral
variants that can emerge to infect humans. In North America, there is phylogenomic …

Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

MF Boni, P Lemey, X Jiang, TTY Lam, BW Perry… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination …

[HTML][HTML] ACE2 binding is an ancestral and evolvable trait of sarbecoviruses

TN Starr, SK Zepeda, AC Walls, AJ Greaney… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Two different sarbecoviruses have caused major human outbreaks in the past two decades,.
Both of these sarbecoviruses, SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, engage ACE2 through the …

HyPhy 2.5—a customizable platform for evolutionary hypothesis testing using phylogenies

SL Kosakovsky Pond, AFY Poon… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies (HyPhy) is a scriptable, open-source
package for fitting a broad range of evolutionary models to multiple sequence alignments …

Datamonkey 2.0: a modern web application for characterizing selective and other evolutionary processes

S Weaver, SD Shank, SJ Spielman, M Li… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Inference of how evolutionary forces have shaped extant genetic diversity is a cornerstone of
modern comparative sequence analysis. Advances in sequence generation and increased …

Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy

R Lorenzo-Redondo, HR Fryer, T Bedford, EY Kim… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Lymphoid tissue is a key reservoir established by HIV-1 during acute infection. It is a site
associated with viral production, storage of viral particles in immune complexes, and viral …

PLS-based model selection: The role of alternative explanations in information systems research

P Sharma, M Sarstedt, G Shmueli, KH Kim… - Journal of the …, 2019 - aisel.aisnet.org
Exploring theoretically plausible alternative models for explaining the phenomenon under
study is a crucial step in advancing scientific knowledge. This paper advocates model …