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发帖数: 5818 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: cellcycle (vacoule), 信区: USANews
标 题: Scientists may know where coronavirus originated
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 17 19:30:59 2020, 美东)
study says, (The study was published in Nature Microbiology)
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, researchers are still investigating
the actual event where the crossover of the novel coronavirus from animals
to humans occurred. A team of scientists may have discovered the answer to
the question many have been asking for months, according to a study
published in Nature Microbiology.
The group of scientists from the United States, China, and Europe compared
mutation patterns of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to other
viruses, and created an evolutionary history of the related viruses. They
discovered the lineage responsible for producing the virus that created the
COVID-19 pandemic has been present in bats, according to the study.
“Collectively our analyses point to bats being the primary reservoir for
the SARS-CoV-2 lineage. While it is possible that pangolins, or another
hitherto undiscovered species, may have acted as an intermediate host
facilitating transmission to humans, current evidence is consistent with the
virus having evolved in bats resulting in bat sarbecoviruses that can
replicate in the upper respiratory tract of both humans and pangolins," the
study authors said in the published report.
The novel coronavirus evolved from other bat viruses from 40-70 years ago,
the team of researchers said. | c*******e
发帖数: 5818 | 2 paper link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
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: 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
: 发信人: cellcycle (vacoule), 信区: USANews
: 标 题: Scientists may know where coronavirus originated
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 17 19:30:59 2020, 美东)
: study says, (The study was published in Nature Microbiology)
: Months into the coronavirus pandemic, researchers are still investigating
: the actual event where the crossover of the novel coronavirus from animals
: to humans occurred. A team of scientists may have discovered the answer to
: the question many have been asking for months, according to a study
: published in Nature Microbiology.
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