Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Rapid expansion of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern is a result of adaptive epistasis
M. R. Garvin, E. T. Prates, J. Romero…·D. Jacobson
The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 genomes to show that adaptive epistasis, not just spike mutations, drives the emergence of variants of concern.
DOI 10.1101/2021.08.03.454981