Coronavirus family tree reveals the virus is hardly mutating – New Scientist

By Graham Lawton

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Like any other biological entity, SARS-CoV-2 has a family tree. It isnt a very old one the virus has only been recognised since December but it still has tales to tell.

Most of what we know about this coronavirus comes from genetic analysis. The first complete SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence was read from a patient who worked at a seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and who was admitted to hospital on 26 December 2019 with symptoms of what turned out

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Coronavirus family tree reveals the virus is hardly mutating - New Scientist

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