id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354893-tku1dr32 Shi, Zhengli Evolution of SARS Coronavirus and the Relevance of Modern Molecular Epidemiology 2010-12-24 .txt text/plain 5894 259 52 Comparative genome sequence analysis indicated that SARS-CoVs civets experience rapid ongoing mutation, suggesting that the viruses were still adapting to the host rather than persisting in equilibrium expected for viruses in their natural reservoir species Song et al., 2005) . Analysis of all the viral sequences available from human patients and animals revealed two major hallmarks of rapid virus evolution during the initial stages of the 2002À2003 outbreaks: (1) All isolates from early patients and market animals contained a 29-nt sequence in ORF8 that is absent in most of the publicly available human SARS-CoV sequences derived from later phases of the outbreaks; (2) a characteristic motif of single-nucleotide variations (SNVs) were identified in SARS-CoV of different phases, and all these SNVs were located in the S gene that codes for the spike protein responsible for attachment to host cellular receptor . Structural analysis of major species barriers between humans and palm civets for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infections ./cache/cord-354893-tku1dr32.txt ./txt/cord-354893-tku1dr32.txt