The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

Nature microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
The present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called
coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the third documented spillover of an animal …

The COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive review of taxonomy, genetics, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and control

YA Helmy, M Fawzy, A Elaswad, A Sobieh… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A pneumonia outbreak with unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei province,
China, in December 2019, associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. The …

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants

T Tamura, J Ito, K Uriu, J Zahradnik, I Kida… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In late 2022, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants have become highly diversified,
and XBB is spreading rapidly around the world. Our phylogenetic analyses suggested that …

Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in marine mammals and seabirds in Peru

M Leguia, A Garcia-Glaessner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A/H5N1 viruses (lineage 2.3. 4.4 b) are rapidly
invading the Americas, threatening wildlife, poultry, and potentially evolving into the next …

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 omicron lineages BA. 4 and BA. 5 in South Africa

H Tegally, M Moir, J Everatt, M Giovanetti… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Three lineages (BA. 1, BA. 2 and BA. 3) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant of concern predominantly drove South Africa's …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …