Category: Recombination
Vietnam: recombinant/hybrid coronavirus announced – B.1.617.2 Delta variant with Y144 mutation from B.1.1.7 Alpha variant
Vietnam has detected a coronavirus hybrid variant with characteristics from the existing B16172 Delta variant and B117 Alpha variant, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday. More...
Gamaleya Institute: ‘The next stage of the epidemic is the infection with the coronavirus of farm and domestic animals’
Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya institute that developed Russia’s Sputnik V human vaccine, was quoted in Izvestia newspaper as saying COVID-19 was likely to hit animals next. More...
NEJM “a recombination event between B.1.1.7 and B.1.526” coronavirus variants
Examination of the SARS-CoV-2 sequences revealed that both patients were infected with variant viruses. More...
CDC: Experimental infection of cattle with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
“Our findings demonstrate that under experimental conditions, cattle show low susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection.” More...
Novel coronavirus discovered in British bats
A coronavirus related to the virus that causes Covid-19 in humans has been found in UK horseshoe bats – according to new collaborative research from the University of East Anglia, ZSL (Zoological Society of London), and Public Health England (PHE). More...
Unique protein features of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus relative to other Sarbecoviruses
“Spike analysis reveals that the current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have sampled only 36% of the possible spikes changes which have occurred historically in Sarbecovirus evolution. More...
Recombination and lineage-specific mutations linked to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
In this work, we reconstruct the evolutionary events that have accompanied the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, with a special emphasis on the RBD and its adaptation for binding to its receptor, human ACE2 (hACE2). More...
Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genomes involving lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK
A survey of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences from the UK has detected a number of variants that had been assigned to the B.1.1.7 lineage but which do not contain the full set of B.1.1.7 ‘lineage defining’ mutations. More...
Walter Reed coronavirus study: “We found moderate evidence for 8 SARS-CoV-2 recombination events, two of which involved the spike gene”
We undertook recombination analyses of 158,118 public seasonal hCoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV genome sequences using the RDP4 software. More...
WHO Investigators scrap plans for interim report on probe of coronavirus origins
WSJ: “The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of Covid-19 is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one international group of scientists for a new probe.” More...