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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.46 [SLACK_000260] · slack_pm:msg:00446

Date: 2020-05-29 14:04
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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```We also demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2's entire RBM was introduced through recombination with coronaviruses from pangolins``` Nope. Entire RBM was lost from RaTG13 through recombination with another bat virus.

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```We also demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2's entire RBM was introduced through recombination with coronaviruses from pangolins``` Nope.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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```We also demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2's entire RBM was introduced through recombination with coronaviruses from pangolins``` Nope.

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2020-05-29 14:04 Andrew Rambaut

```We also demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2's entire RBM was introduced through recombination with coronaviruses from pangolins``` Nope. Entire RBM was lost from RaTG13 through recombination with another bat virus.
2020-05-29 14:06 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, I thought that was the case
2020-05-29 14:29 Robert F. Garry open

Does this mean that the reporters are going to start calling again? I'd just as soon be left alone.
2020-05-29 14:33 Robert F. Garry open

"RBM was lost from RaTG13 through recombination with another bat virus." I'm a believer - definitely the most likely scenario.
2020-05-29 15:31 Edward C. Holmes open

By definition, I don't see how you can emerge through 'purifying selection'.

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