Virus hunters: Discovering the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2

Arinjay Banerjee

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2021.06.012

Virus hunters: Discovering the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2

Cell Host Microbe. 2021 Jul 14;29(7):1031-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.06.012.

Author

Arinjay Banerjee¹

Affiliation

¹ Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada; Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. Electronic address: arinjay.banerjee@usask.ca.

Abstract

The likely animal source of SARS-CoV-2 remains speculative. A recent study published in Cell by Zhou et al. reported the detection of novel alpha- and betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in bats.

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MeSH terms

Animals
COVID-19*
Chiroptera*
Genome, Viral
Humans
Phylogeny
SARS-CoV-2