In the Chinese zodiac,2020 was the Year of the Rat.But it was remembered more as a“Year of the Bat”due to the great attention in the general public and scientific community on the role of bats as the reservoir of em...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)is a highly contagious virus that can transmit through respiratory droplets,aerosols,or contacts.Frequent touching of contaminated surfaces in public areas is...
Coronaviruses are among the largest group of known positive-sense RNA viruses with a wide range of animal hosts as reservoir. In the last two decades,newly evolved coronaviruses such as the severe acute respiratory sy...
National Key Research and Development Project of China,Grant/Award Number:2016YFD0500304;CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences,Grant/Award Number:NO.2016-I2M-1-014\2016-12M-006;the Chinese National Major S&T Project,Grant/Award Number:NO.2017ZX10304402-001-003
In humans, infection with the coronavirus, especially the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV) and the emerging Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV), induces acute respiratory fail...
Phylogenetic tree of coronaviruses (CoVs) in-cluding the human SARS-associated virus is reconstructed from complete genomes by using our newly developed K- string composition approach. The relation of the human SARS-C...