One year into the pandemic: Short-term evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of new lineages

• Published in: Infection, genetics and evolution Vol. 92; p. 104869
• Main Authors: González-Candelas, Fernando, Shaw, Marie-Anne, Phan, Tung, Kulkarni-Kale, Urmila, Paraskevis, Dimitrios, Luciani, Fabio, Kimura, Hirokazu, Sironi, Manuela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2021; The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V
• Subjects: Biological Evolution; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - immunology; COVID-19 - virology; COVID-19 Vaccines - immunology; Diagnostic tests; Genetic Variation; Humans; Lineages; Review; SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV-2 - genetics; Vaccination; VACCINES; Variants; COVID-19; Variants; Lineages; SARS-CoV-2; Diagnostic tests; VACCINES

The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared on March 11th, 2020. Since the very beginning, the spread of the virus has been tracked nearly in real-time by worldwide genome sequencing efforts. As of March 2021, more than 830,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been uploaded in GISAID and this wealth of dat...