2022
The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK
Hill V, Du Plessis L, Peacock T, Aggarwal D, Colquhoun R, Carabelli A, Ellaby N, Gallagher E, Groves N, Jackson B, McCrone J, O'Toole Á, Price A, Sanderson T, Scher E, Southgate J, Volz E, Barclay W, Barrett J, Chand M, Connor T, Goodfellow I, Gupta R, Harrison E, Loman N, Myers R, Robertson D, Pybus O, Rambaut A. The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK. Virus Evolution 2022, 8: veac080. PMID: 36533153, PMCID: PMC9752794, DOI: 10.1093/ve/veac080.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvolutionary ratesIncreased evolutionary rateVariant of concernNon-human animal populationsRate of evolutionLineage B.1.1.7SARS-CoV-2 lineagesSARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7Monophyletic cladeAncestral branchGenomic locationsPhylogenetic branchesMolecular evolutionMutational eventsGenomic surveillanceInfect immunocompetent hostsAlpha genomeSARS-CoV-2 variantsSARS-CoV-2Animal populationsSARS-CoV-2 variant of concernMutationsMutation profilesLineagesVariants
2021
Addendum: A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology
Rambaut A, Holmes E, O’Toole Á, Hill V, McCrone J, Ruis C, du Plessis L, Pybus O. Addendum: A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology 2021, 6: 415-415. PMID: 33514928, PMCID: PMC7845574, DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00872-5.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology
Rambaut A, Holmes E, O’Toole Á, Hill V, McCrone J, Ruis C, du Plessis L, Pybus O. A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology. Nature Microbiology 2020, 5: 1403-1407. PMID: 32669681, PMCID: PMC7610519, DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0770-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDiversity of SARS-CoV-2Virus lineagesVirus genome sequencesSARS-CoV-2 lineagesPhylogenetic frameworkGenome sequencePhylogenetic diversityGlobal spread of SARS-CoV-2Nomenclatural proposalsGenomic epidemiologyVirus nomenclatureSARS-CoV-2LineagesLineage labelingHuman coronavirusesGlobal spreadNomenclatureSequenceSpread of SARS-CoV-2Virus