TWiV 954: Speculating sarbecovirus spillovers with Michael Letko
This Week in Virology
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SARS-2 Viruses
Sarbeko viruses that were found in bats in Africa. So pretty widely out of where we expect them to see sarbeko viruses. And importantly, those were clayed three viruses. The way we do the phylogenetic analysis is just on the receptor binding domain and only at the amino acid level. It's just giving us kind of an overall more like sequence similarity and relationships rather than true evolutionary history.
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