Could human coronavirus OC43 have co-evolved with early humans?

Abstract This paper reports on an investigation of the role of codon usage evolution on the suggested bovine-to-human spillover of Bovine coronavirus (BCoV), an enteric/respiratory virus of cattle, resulting in the emergence of the exclusively respiratory Human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43). Analyses...

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Main Author: Paulo Eduardo Brandão
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2018-06-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572018000400692&lng=en&tlng=en