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TWiEVO 68: Stepping through time with SARS-CoV-2

  • May 29, 2021
  • Tagged as: COVID-19, evolution, mutation order approach, natural selection, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, time to most recent common ancestor, tMRCA, viral, virology, virus

Nels and Vincent explain a new method for calculating the most recent common ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, which concludes that the ancestral virus was circulating in October/November 2019, before its first detection in China.

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