Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses
Hong Zhou, Jingkai Ji, Xing Chen, Yuhai Bi, Juan Li, Qihui Wang, Tao Hu, Hao Song, Runchu Zhao, Yanhua Chen, Mingxue Cui, Yanyan Zhang, Alice C. Hughes, Edward C. Holmes, Weifeng Shi
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