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TWiEVO 55: Coronavirus evolution from soup to nuts

7 May 2020 by Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 evolution, with a report that the coronavirus proofreading enzyme stimulates RNA recombination, and debunking the conclusion that a change in the viral spike glycoprotein is associated with increased human to human transmission.

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Filed Under: This Week in Evolution Tagged With: coronavirus, CoV, COVID-19, error correction, evolution, exonuclease, founder effect, recombination, SARS-CoV-2, selection, spike glycoprotein, viral, virology, virus

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