TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts

Nels and Vincent review three aspects of SARS-CoV-2: phylogenetics of Omicron, a two-step fitness selection for variants, and putative RNA insertions from host genomes.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Two-step fitness selection for SARS-CoV-2 variants (Cell Rep)
• Host origins of SARS-CoV-2 genome insertions (Virological)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels – Plant virus satellite accelerates wing formation in insect
Vincent – A plant virus that switched to vertebrates

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