Maciej F. Boni

TL;DR: SARS-CoV-2 itself is not a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and its receptor-binding motif appears to be an ancestral trait shared with bat viruses and not one acquired recently via recombination.

TL;DR: This work presents a method for rapidly calculating the distribution of Δm,n,b and demonstrates that it has comparable power to and a much improved running time over previous methods, especially in detecting recombination in large data sets.

TL;DR: An analysis of genome variation in 825 P. falciparum samples from Asia and Africa is described that identifies an unusual pattern of parasite population structure at the epicenter of artemisinin resistance in western Cambodia, and a catalog of SNPs that show high levels of differentiation in the art Artemisinin-resistant subpopulations are provided.

TL;DR: It is shown that an epidemiological model of dengue transmission in travelers, based on mobility data from ∼40 million mobile phone subscribers and climatic information, predicts the geographic spread and timing of epidemics throughout the country.

TL;DR: Estimates are obtained from three approaches that the most likely divergence date of SARS-CoV-2 from its most closely related available bat sequences ranges from 1948 to 1982, indicating that there are high levels of co-infection in horseshoe bats and that the viral pool can generate novel allele combinations and substantial genetic diversity.