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ArticleScience China. Life sciences2026

Merbecoviruses exploit APN for entry: expanding the receptor toolkit of betacoronaviruses.

Yu Wang, Jie Chen, Wanjie Song, Xin-Xin Li, Xing Ma, Qi Cui, Michael Veit, Andres Merits, Marina Gulyaeva, Ivan Sobolev and 6 more

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Article in Science China. Life sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Yu Wang *Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Jie Chen *Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Wanjie Song *Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Xin-Xin Li *Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Xing Ma *Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Qi CuiSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Michael VeitInstitute for Virology, Center for Infection Medicine, Veterinary Faculty, Free University Berlin, Berlin, 14163, Germany.
Andres MeritsInstitute of Bioengineering, University of Tartu, Tartu, 50411, Estonia.
Marina GulyaevaDepartment of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
Ivan SobolevResearch Institute of Virology, Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630060, Russia.
Xiaofeng ZhaiSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Xiaoguang ZhangSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Yu DengSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Houqi JiaoSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Shuo SuSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Ningning WangSanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Animal Biopharmaceuticals and Epidemic Control Technological Innovation Center, State Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and Cultured Meat Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. nningwang@njau.edu.cn.

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