Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic
Maciej F. Boni, Philippe Lemey, Xiaowei Jiang, Tommy Tsan‐Yuk Lam, Blair W. Perry, Todd A. Castoe, Andrew Rambaut, David L. Robertson
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BiologyLineage (genetic)Evolutionary biologyPhylogenetic treePhylogeneticsHuman evolutionary geneticsSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)CoronavirusViral evolutionGenomeGeneticsPandemicCoalescent theoryDivergence (linguistics)VirologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)GeneInfectious disease (medical specialty)PhilosophyPathologyLinguisticsMedicineDiseaseSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchAnimal Virus Infections StudiesViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology