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JournalISSN: 1567-1348

Infection, Genetics and Evolution 

Elsevier BV
About: Infection, Genetics and Evolution is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Genotype. It has an ISSN identifier of 1567-1348. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 5135 publications have been published receiving 127055 citations.


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TL;DR: The results are in line with previous estimates and point to all sequences sharing a common ancestor towards the end of 2019, supporting this as the period when SARS-CoV-2 jumped into its human host.

709 citations

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TL;DR: The latest observations about the structure of SCCmec are described, the techniques used to study the molecular epidemiology and evolution of S. aureus as well as some challenges that researchers face in the future are described.

661 citations

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TL;DR: Evidence is shown that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) is not-mosaic consisting in almost half of its genome of a distinct lineage within the betacoronavirus, suggesting that the hypothesis that 2019-nCoV has originated from bats is very likely.

579 citations

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TL;DR: Comparison of gene sequence data reveals that dengue virus has a relatively recent evolutionary history, with the four serotypes originating approximately 1000 years ago and only establishing endemic transmission in humans in the last few hundred years.

558 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202385
2022236
2021430
2020470
2019360
2018349