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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.39 [SLACK_000253] · slack_pm:msg:00380

Date: 2020-05-25 15:22
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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"Since codon usage in coronaviruses are not greatly influenced by the host it resides in, this means a jump to humans must have been in a host which did not have even a few months history with the virus, otherwise the terminal G would have been purified out". There are a number leaps in logic and evidence at this point.

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2020-05-25 15:22 Edward C. Holmes

"Since codon usage in coronaviruses are not greatly influenced by the host it resides in, this means a jump to humans must have been in a host which did not have even a few months history with the virus, otherwise the terminal G would have been purified out". There are a number leaps in logic and evidence at this point.
2020-05-25 15:37 Edward C. Holmes open

HKU9 has CGG CGG - send him Bill Gallaher's link.
2020-05-25 16:08 Kristian G. Andersen open

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/china-coronavirus-dossier-came-out-of-us-state-department/12282994
2020-05-25 17:05 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's now two for two - phylogenetics can be hard... @Andrew Rambaut, I assume your preprint must have prompted this...? (separately, I blame you for convincing me that the hypothesis was right!! :wink: ). https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1265063921880150016?s=20

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