Jessie, Allie and Tyler join Nels and Vincent to describe their work on deep mutational scanning of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain.
TWiEVO 52: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV
- February 26, 2020
- Tagged as: ACE2, bat, coronavirus, CoV, evolution, pangolin, positive selection, receptor binding domain, SARS-CoV-2, spike glycoprotein, virus, viruses, zoonosis
Nels and Vincent examine SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, examining what the spike glycoprotein sequence informs us about the origin of the virus.
