This Week in Evolution

TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts


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Nels and Vincent review three aspects of SARS-CoV-2: phylogenetics of Omicron, a two-step fitness selection for variants, and putative RNA insertions from host genomes.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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  • Two-step fitness selection for SARS-CoV-2 variants (Cell Rep)
  • Host origins of SARS-CoV-2 genome insertions (Virological)
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