Role of SARS-CoV-2 mutations in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic
P. Colson, H. Chaudet, J. Delerce, P. Pontarotti, A. Levasseur, J. Fantini, B. La Scola, C. A. Devaux, D. Raoult
The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 mutations across 61,397 genomes to identify 'hyperfertile' mutations that spread widely, finding most did not predict new epidemic forms, with some in non-coding regions and stop codons.
bioRxiv · May 1, 2023Microbiology