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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.46 [SLACK_000260] · slack_pm:msg:00448

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Date
2020-05-29 14:29
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Does this mean that the reporters are going to start calling again? I'd just as soon be left alone.

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  1. 2020-05-29 14:04 Andrew Rambaut open
    ```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.
  2. 2020-05-29 14:06 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, I thought that was the case
  3. 2020-05-29 14:29 Robert F. Garry
    Does this mean that the reporters are going to start calling again? I'd just as soon be left alone.
  4. 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.
  5. 2020-05-29 15:31 Edward C. Holmes open
    By definition, I don't see how you can emerge through 'purifying selection'.
  6. 2020-05-29 15:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    First I've seen of this: Bette Korber strikes again.
  7. 2020-05-29 15:39 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I think she should go back to annotating HIV alignments.

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