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. 2020 Mar;80(3):350-371.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.01.014. Epub 2020 Jan 28.

Emergence of a novel coronavirus causing respiratory illness from Wuhan, China

Julian W Tang  1 , Paul A Tambyah  2 , David S C Hui  3
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Emergence of a novel coronavirus causing respiratory illness from Wuhan, China

Julian W Tang et al. J Infect. 2020 Mar.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests.

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A maximum likelihood tree using full genome coronavirus sequences (30–40 kbp in length) from GenBank was constructed using Fast Tree (v2.1) under a GTR model of evolution. Initial alignment was performed using the online multiple alignment program (MAFFT v.7: https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/server/) with further manual editing. The final tree was displayed and annotated in FigTree v1.4.4. Large groups of similar sequences belong to HCoV OC43, HKU1, NL63, 229E ad SARS CoV have been collapsed for clarity. Figures on the branches are Shimodaira-Hasegawa-like support values, ranging from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating that the branch topologies (or ‘splits’) are more likely to be real. The Wuhan 2019-nCoV (GenBank Accession no. MN908947) is shown in red along with its closest relative bat SARS-like CoVs.
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