Mahan Ghafari

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Keywords molecular epidemiology sarbecoviruses virus evolution phylogeography Introduction Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.) are the main hosts of the Sarbecovirus subgenus1 (genus Betacoronavirus, family Coronaviridae) and, likely via virus transmission through transient intermediate species, were the source of SARS-CoV (referred to hereafter as SARS-CoV-1, now extinct) and SARS-CoV-2.2,3,4 Since the first emergence of SARS-CoV-1 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2...