Animal-to-Human Viral Transitions: Is SARS-CoV-2 an Evolutionarily Successful One?

Transmission of viruses from one species to another is not unusual in nature. Despite this, evolutionarily successful transmissions are rare. Such events can cause pandemics and are followed by host–virus coevolution procedures that can increase the fitness potential of viruses. In this perspective...

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Autor principal: Voskarides, Konstantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7201112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32377932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09947-z
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description Transmission of viruses from one species to another is not unusual in nature. Despite this, evolutionarily successful transmissions are rare. Such events can cause pandemics and are followed by host–virus coevolution procedures that can increase the fitness potential of viruses. In this perspective article, I recognize eight main types of trans-species viral transmission. I consider two of them as evolutionarily successful, explaining why coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 could be one of them.
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spelling pubmed-72011122020-05-06 Animal-to-Human Viral Transitions: Is SARS-CoV-2 an Evolutionarily Successful One? Voskarides, Konstantinos J Mol Evol Letter to the Editor Transmission of viruses from one species to another is not unusual in nature. Despite this, evolutionarily successful transmissions are rare. Such events can cause pandemics and are followed by host–virus coevolution procedures that can increase the fitness potential of viruses. In this perspective article, I recognize eight main types of trans-species viral transmission. I consider two of them as evolutionarily successful, explaining why coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 could be one of them. Springer US 2020-05-06 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7201112/ /pubmed/32377932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09947-z Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7201112/
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