{"id":10342,"date":"2022-10-06T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:19:04","slug":"studies-on-infected-farmed-minks-provide-new-insight-into-the-origin-and-evolution-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/10342\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies on infected farmed minks provide new insight into the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is generally recognized that viruses should acquire adaptive changes when spillover to a new host. However, previous studies on human infections of SARS-CoV-2 did not find such selection signature. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in 2020 on Netherlands mink farms provides us the opportunity to study the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in minks. Dr. Shu-Miaw Chaw\u2019s team at Biodiversity Research Center and Dr. Hurng-Yi Wang\u2019s at National Taiwan University College of Medicine found very different evolutionary patterns between the two hosts\u2019 viruses. This work was published in <em>Molecular Biology and Evolution<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Article link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msac156\/6658056\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mbe\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/molbev\/msac156\/6658056<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"Studies on infected farmed minks provide new insight into the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2-1080x797.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-2.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is generally recognized that viruses should acquire adaptive changes when spillover to a new host. However, previous studies on human infections of SARS-CoV-2 did not find such selection signature. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in 2020 on Netherlands mink farms provides us the opportunity to study the early evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in minks. Dr. Shu-Miaw Chaw\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13177,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/13177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}