dmm, Remember COVID and the coronavirus?
There is an interesting discussion about bats, pangolins, and SARS-CoV-2 in the Nature Communications paper "Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses circulating in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia" [1].
The paper is also discussed in some detail on TWiV 722 [2]. The discussion starts at about 00:19:20.
More cool research on bats and SARS-CoV-2.
#bats #pangolins #sarscov2 #biology #viruses #twiv
References
[1] "Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses circulating in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21240-1
[2] "TWiV 722: More coronaviruses in the pipeline", https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-722/