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Evidence from the evolutionary analysis of nucleotide sequences for a recombinant history of SARS-CoV
The origins and evolutionary history of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) remain an issue of uncertainty and debate. Based on evolutionary analyses of coronavirus DNA sequences, encompassing an approximately 13 kb stretch of the SARS-TOR2 genome, we provide evidence...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier B.V.
2004
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15019585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2003.10.001 |
Sumario: | The origins and evolutionary history of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) remain an issue of uncertainty and debate. Based on evolutionary analyses of coronavirus DNA sequences, encompassing an approximately 13 kb stretch of the SARS-TOR2 genome, we provide evidence that SARS-CoV has a recombinant history with lineages of types I and III coronavirus. We identified a minimum of five recombinant regions ranging from 83 to 863 bp in length and including the polymerase, nsp9, nsp10, and nsp14. Our results are consistent with a hypothesis of viral host jumping events, concomitant with the reassortment of bird and mammalian coronaviruses, a scenario analogous to earlier outbreaks of influenzae. |
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