The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time genomic surveillance for enhanced control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

MJ Struelens, C Ludden, G Werner, V Sintchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This article advocates for mobilizing pathogen genomic surveillance to contain and mitigate
health threats from infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), building upon …

[HTML][HTML] The future of evolutionary medicine: sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health

B Natterson-Horowitz, A Aktipis, M Fox… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Evolutionary medicine–ie the application of insights from evolution and ecology to
biomedicine–has tremendous untapped potential to spark transformational innovation in …

Molecular epidemiology and population immunity of SARS-CoV-2 in Guangdong (2022–2023) following a pivotal shift in the pandemic

Z Li, P Hu, L Qu, M Yang, M Qiu, C **e, H Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant sparked the largest wave of infections
worldwide. Mainland China eased its strict COVID-19 measures in late 2022 and …

State-dependent evolutionary models reveal modes of solid tumour growth

MA Lewinsohn, T Bedford, NF Müller… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial properties of tumour growth have profound implications for cancer progression,
therapeutic resistance and metastasis. Yet, how spatial position governs tumour cell division …

High-resolution epidemiological landscape from~ 290,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Denmark

MP Khurana, J Curran-Sebastian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Vast amounts of pathogen genomic, demographic and spatial data are transforming our
understanding of SARS-CoV-2 emergence and spread. We examined the drivers of …

Evolution, epidemiology, geographical distribution, and mutational landscape of newly emerging monkeypox virus

C Chakraborty, M Bhattacharya, AR Sharma, K Dhama - GeroScience, 2022 - Springer
Recent monkeypox (MPX) outbreaks are major ones in non-endemic countries. The present
study analyzed molecular phylogenetics, divergence, epidemiology, the geographical …

Approaches and challenges to inferring the geographical source of infectious disease outbreaks using genomic data

Z Chen, P Lemey, H Yu - The Lancet Microbe, 2024 - thelancet.com
Genomic data hold increasing potential in the elucidation of transmission dynamics and
geographical sources of infectious disease outbreaks. Phylogeographic methods that use …

Measurably recombining malaria parasites

F Camponovo, CO Buckee, AR Taylor - Trends in parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Genomic epidemiology has guided research and policy for various viral pathogens and
there has been a parallel effort towards using genomic epidemiology to combat diseases …