{"id":6912,"date":"2020-05-18T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:38:46","slug":"evidence-of-increasing-diversification-of-emerging-sars-cov-2-strains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/evidence-of-increasing-diversification-of-emerging-sars-cov-2-strains\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of Increasing Diversification of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Analyses of complete genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 strains\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from around the world reveals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increasing diversification of SARS-CoV-2 strains in three different genetic clades.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The time of the most recent common ancestor was established to be around November 1, 2019, with a mean rate of evolution of 6.57 x 10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0substitutions per site per year. High evolutionary rates and fast population growth\u00a0characterizes\u00a0the population dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 strains.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Castells et al. (May 15, 2020). Evidence of Increasing Diversification of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Strains. Journal of Medical Virology.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26018\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26018<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyses of complete genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 strains\u00a0from around the world reveals\u00a0increasing diversification of SARS-CoV-2 strains in three different genetic clades.\u00a0 The time of the most recent common ancestor was established to be around November 1, 2019, with a mean rate of evolution of 6.57 x 10&#8211;4\u00a0substitutions per site per year. High evolutionary rates and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/evidence-of-increasing-diversification-of-emerging-sars-cov-2-strains\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6913,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}