# Novel 2019 coronavirus genome

**URL:** <https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319>\
**Category:** SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus\
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "2020-01-11T01:05:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Foley](https://virological.org/user_avatar/virological.org/brian_foley/32/598_2.png) [@Brian\_Foley](https://virological.org/u/Brian_Foley)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319/26 "2020-01-29T02:00:37Z")

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A 2013 bat Betacoronavirus (GISAID accession EPI\_ISL\_402131) was recently uploaded to GISAID. It is much more closely related to the 2019-2020 human outbreak viruses than the previously available bat virus genomes.

The publication of this sequence is available at the BioRxiv:

> **[Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia...](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.22.914952v1)**
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> Since the SARS outbreak 18 years ago, a large number of severe acute respiratory syndrome related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoV) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats\[1\]\[1\]-\[4\]\[2\]. Previous studies indicated that some of those bat...

[BetaCoronaviruses\_56\_WuhanCladePlus2013Bat\_TreePDF.pdf](https://virological.org/uploads/short-url/vcaNqWeW6B8676yvZSc3RS2cpuW.pdf) (4.4 KB)

 ![BioArXiv_Vs_FoleyTree](https://virological.org/uploads/default/original/1X/608bb5183cf5e316ae507c5215c4beba348b8729.png)

There is recombination between many of these viruses, so the phylogenetic trees built from complete genomes is not an accurate reflection of the evolutionary history of the various lineages.

 ![57_WuhanClade_STRPD_11500-19000-tree-vs-genome](https://virological.org/uploads/default/original/1X/d5725b438544e327757dd20ace430a69a0a3199c.png)

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