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Comment
. 2020 Jun 9;117(23):12518-12519.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2007062117. Epub 2020 May 7.

Median-joining network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes is neither phylogenetic nor evolutionary

Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco  1 , Sungsik Kong  2 , Paola Pulido-Santacruz  3 , Robert W Murphy  4   5 , Laura Kubatko  6   7
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Median-joining network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes is neither phylogenetic nor evolutionary

Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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  • Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
    Forster P, Forster L, Renfrew C, Forster M. Forster P, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Apr 28;117(17):9241-9243. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004999117. Epub 2020 Apr 8. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020. PMID: 32269081 Free PMC article.

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