Dating the Common Ancestor from an NCBI Tree of 83688 High-Quality and Full-Length SARS-CoV-2 Genomes

All dating studies involving SARS-CoV-2 are problematic. Previous studies have dated the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) between SARS-CoV-2 and its close relatives from bats and pangolins. However, the evolutionary rate thus derived is expected to differ from the rate estimated from sequence dive...

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Main Author: Xuhua Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/9/1790