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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Median-joining network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes is neither phylogenetic nor evolutionary.

Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco, Sungsik Kong, Paola Pulido-Santacruz, Robert W Murphy, Laura Kubatko

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Finding maximum common contractions between phylogenetic networks.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2025
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  2. Phylogenetic networks empower biodiversity research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Phylogeography and Population Variation inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  11. Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  14. Ongoing Global and Regional Adaptive Evolution of SARS-CoV-2.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2021
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  15. The origin and early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Santiago J Sánchez-PachecoCentre for Biodiversity, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada; santiago.sanchezpacheco@mail.utoronto.ca sungsik.kong@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4253-1101
Sungsik KongDepartment of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; santiago.sanchezpacheco@mail.utoronto.ca sungsik.kong@gmail.com.
Paola Pulido-SantacruzPrograma Ciencias de la Biodiversidad, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, 111311, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-7125-0304
Robert W MurphyCentre for Biodiversity, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8555-2338
Laura KubatkoDepartment of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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Coronavirus InfectionsSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPhylogenyPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32381733
PMCPMC7293637

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