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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.318 [SLACK_000532] · slack_pm:msg:03346

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Date
2020-12-16 06:57
Type
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mentioned
Robert F. Garry
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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@Robert Garry What would your thoughts about V701A be?

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  1. 2020-12-16 06:57 Andrew Rambaut open
    We are calling it Nelly
  2. 2020-12-16 06:57 Andrew Rambaut
    @Robert Garry What would your thoughts about V701A be?
  3. 2020-12-16 06:57 Robert F. Garry open
    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1603.full
  4. 2020-12-16 06:58 Andrew Rambaut open
    Yes! We briefly considered whether it had emerged from the rat infested sewers of London Town.
  5. 2020-12-16 07:00 Andrew Rambaut open
    @Andrew Rambaut Is it too far away from the FCS to be related to that? I ask because the South African outbreak with 501Y has a mutation at 701 apparently.
  6. 2020-12-16 07:01 Andrew Rambaut open
    @Andrew Rambaut Although now looking, it seems the ancestral amino acid is A

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