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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2022

Extensive Recombination-driven Coronavirus Diversification Expands the Pool of Potential Pandemic Pathogens.

Stephen A Goldstein, Joe Brown, Brent S Pedersen, Aaron R Quinlan, Nels C Elde

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Patterns of Recombination in Coronaviruses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Research Advances on Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome Coronavirus.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
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  13. The coronavirus recombination pathway.Cell host & microbe · 2023
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  16. Correlated substitutions reveal SARS-like coronaviruses recombine frequently with a diverse set of structured gene pools.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  20. The Evolution and Biology of SARS-CoV-2 Variants.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen A GoldsteinDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Joe BrownDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Brent S PedersenDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Aaron R QuinlanDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Nels C EldeDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
University of Utah · US

Funding

Scalable detection and interpretation of structural variation in human genomesR01HG010757 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI QUINLAN, AARON R · 2020 to 2023
$2.8M
Evolutionary innovations from host-microbe interactionsR35GM134936 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI ELDE, NELS C. · 2020 to 2024
$1.7M
Virus Evolution Through Horizontal Gene TransferF32AI152341 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI GOLDSTEIN, STEPHEN · 2021 to 2023
$215k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010757NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI152341NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134936
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the third zoonotic coronavirus identified in the last 20 years. Enzootic and epizootic coronaviruses of diverse lineages also pose a significant threat to livestock, as most recently observed for virulent strains of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) and swine acute diarrhea-associated coronavirus (SADS-CoV). Unique to RNA viruses, coronaviruses encode a proofreading exonuclease (ExoN) that lowers point mutation rates to increase the viability of large RNA virus genomes, which comes with the cost of limiting virus adaptation via point mutation. This limitation can be overcome by high rates of recombination that facilitate rapid increases in genetic diversification. To compare the dynamics of recombination between related sequences, we developed an open-source computational workflow (IDPlot) that bundles nucleotide identity, recombination, and phylogenetic analysis into a single pipeline. We analyzed recombination dynamics among three groups of coronaviruses with noteworthy impacts on human health and agriculture: SARSr-CoV, Betacoronavirus-1, and SADSr-CoV. We found that all three groups undergo recombination with highly diverged viruses from undersampled or unsampled lineages, including in typically highly conserved regions of the genome. In several cases, no parental origin of recombinant regions could be found in genetic databases, demonstrating our shallow characterization of coronavirus diversity and expanding the genetic pool that may contribute to future zoonotic events. Our results also illustrate the limitations of current sampling approaches for anticipating zoonotic threats to human and animal health.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2AnimalsHumansPhylogenySwinecoronavirusesevolutionvirology

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