Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Variant emergence, not vaccine deployment, drives episodic positive selection on the SARS-CoV-2 spike at provincial scale in Canada
Marissa Tomas, Cheikh Pape Khary Ndongo, Matthieu Vilain, Stéphane Aris‐Brosou
The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution in Canada, finding that variant emergence, not vaccine deployment, drove episodic positive selection at the provincial level.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.16.725625