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TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences

June 30, 2021
Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, genome sequence, Rhinolophus bats, SARS-CoV-2, Sequence Read Archive, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

Nels and Vincent discuss the identification of novel bat coronaviruses that shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, dating the first cases of COVID-19 to mid-November 2019, and recovery of deleted genome sequences from early in the Wuhan outbreak.

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TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science

April 25, 2020
Tagged as: coronavirus, CoV, COVID-19, evolution, furin cleavage site, genome sequence, natural selection, SARS-CoV-2, viral, virology, virus

Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, including function of the furin cleavage site, whether Vervet cells are an informative system, another bat isolate, and a nomenclature to assist genomic epidemiology.

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TWiEVO 8: Everyone’s a little bit Neanderthal

June 8, 2016
Tagged as: adaptive introgression, evolution, genome sequence, haplotype, innate immunity, introgression, Neanderthal, OAS, oligoadenylate synthetase

Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.

Tag: genome sequence

TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences

TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science

TWiEVO 8: Everyone’s a little bit Neanderthal

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