Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Genome data artifacts and functional studies of deletion repair in the BA.1 SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
M. Alvarez-Herrera, P. Ruiz-Rodriguez, B. Navarro-Dominguez…·M. Coscolla
This study examines deletion repair in the BA.1 SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, finding that such events are rare and have limited direct impact on viral evolution but may influence fitness-enhancing mutations.
DOI 10.1093/ve/veaf015