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TWiEVO 71: Faster than a speeding coronavirus

  • September 26, 2021
  • Tagged as: alpha variant, coronavirus, COVID-19, delta variant, evolution, mutation rate, natural selection, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, viral fitness

Nels and Vincent explain a method to calculate the mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2, and the role of a single amino acid change in spike in enhancing fitness of the delta variant and enabling it to out-compete the alpha variant.

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