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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.300 [SLACK_000514] · slack_pm:msg:03135

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Date
2020-12-06 11:15
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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But spooky none the less

In context

A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

  1. 2020-12-06 11:13 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Haha, YES - I thought you had looked at the alignment!
  2. 2020-12-06 11:14 Andrew Rambaut open
    No - was just looking for ones related to WA1 that were from more plausible locations
  3. 2020-12-06 11:14 Andrew Rambaut open
    Given it is synonymous and the pangolin has loads of other mutations in that area it must be coincidence.
  4. 2020-12-06 11:15 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Oh, but hang on - RmYN02 has 'C' in this position too - so pangos and RmYN02
  5. 2020-12-06 11:15 Andrew Rambaut
    But spooky none the less
  6. 2020-12-06 11:15 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, probably - but, yes, spooky.
  7. 2020-12-06 11:15 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I think it's safe to say that we're definitely missing some early emergence stuff here
  8. 2020-12-06 11:16 Kristian G. Andersen open
    ... which is very interesting and worth a closer look. Would explain why we can't really root properly as well (Ihaven't checked recently, but back in the spring, BEAST insisted on a midpoint root when you took away the dates).
  9. 2020-12-06 11:16 Andrew Rambaut open
    Will do some experiments on BEAST dating with enforced WA1 outgrouping

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