An evolutionary portrait of the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and its dominant offshoots in COVID-19 pandemic
S. Kumar, Q. Tao, S. Weaver, M. D. Sanderford, M. Caraballo, S. Sharma, S. L. Kosakovsky Pond, S. Miura
The paper reconstructs the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 genome and traces its evolution and spread globally, showing multiple dominant strains and lineage replacements in different regions.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2020Evolutionary Biology