Nature Communications (May 2022)

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation

  • Cedric C. S. Tan,
  • Su Datt Lam,
  • Damien Richard,
  • Christopher J. Owen,
  • Dorothea Berchtold,
  • Christine Orengo,
  • Meera Surendran Nair,
  • Suresh V. Kuchipudi,
  • Vivek Kapur,
  • Lucy van Dorp,
  • François Balloux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30698-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, Tan et al. find that the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 in mink and deer required minimal adaptation, has only caused moderate changes to the evolutionary trajectory of the virus, and has not led to viral mutations that greatly improve human transmission thus far.