Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus

Image caption: Mathematically modeled “landscapes” that describe the relative fitness of various mutations can in theory be used to project how SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses could evolve in the future. Image credit: Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine. Article by Carrie Arnold. Quanta Magazine – January 11, 2022.

Studies that map the adaptive value of viral mutations hint at how the COVID-19 pandemic might progress next.

In the fall of 2019, the world began one of the largest evolutionary biology experiments in modern history. Somewhere near the city of Wuhan in eastern China, a coronavirus acquired the ability to live inside humans rather than the bats and other mammals that had been its hosts. It adapted further […]

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