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:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: [2021-03-10 13:50:03] [Kristian Andersen] Eddie, can you please (please!) do us a favor and reply? Maybe point her to your book on Amazon on the topic for extra snark. [2021-03-10 13:53:05] [Eddie Holmes] On it. [2021-03-10 14:10:40] [Eddie Holmes] Would this be ok? "There's a process called 'recombination' that is commonly documented in nature that explains this pattern. Coronaviruses recombine frequently. This is covered in basic virology textbooks and my own monograph: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Emergence-Viruses-Oxford-Ecology/dp/0199211132" [2021-03-10 14:12:36] [Kristian Andersen] Sufficiently snarky - so yes. [2021-03-10 14:14:43] [Eddie Holmes] Done. I didn't reply because I have blocked this nutter, but I pasted that tweet in. [2021-03-10 14:15:55] [Kristian Andersen] :fire: [2021-03-10 14:19:54] [Eddie Holmes] She is so spectacularly dumb. They just don't understand the basic biology of what they are talking about. [2021-03-10 14:21:10] [Kristian Andersen] I mean - they should have come across recombination by now if they actually cared about looking at this properly... But I guess that was never the purpose. [2021-03-10 14:23:39] [Andrew Rambaut] Found some lovely examples of recombinants between B.1.1.7 and other lineages: [shared file(s): group4_snp_plot.png] [2021-03-10 14:24:32] [Andrew Rambaut] Perhaps that is lab made too? [2021-03-10 14:31:58] [Eddie Holmes] You can't argue with people so dumb. [2021-03-10 14:34:10] [Kristian Andersen] Interesting recombinants - Andrew, do you have an automated way to detect these? We have seen some strange sequences lately.