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Further analysis of metagenomic datasets containing GD and GX pangolin CoVs indicates widespread contamination, undermining pangolin host attribution
Adrian Jones, Steven E. Massey, Daoyu Zhang +2
The only animals other than bats reported to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses (SARS2r-CoVs) prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are pangolins. In early 2020 mult…
Nipah virus vector sequences in COVID-19 patient samples sequenced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Steven C. Quay, Daoyu Zhang, Adrian Jones +1
We report the detection of Nipah virus in an infectious clone format, a BSL4-level pathogen and CDC-designated Bioterrorism Agent, in raw RNA-Seq sequencing reads deposited by the…
Analysis of pangolin metagenomic datasets reveals significant contamination, raising concerns for pangolin CoV host attribution
Adrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang, Yuri Deigin +1
Metagenomic datasets from pangolin tissue specimens have previously yielded SARS-related coronaviruses which show high homology in their receptor binding domain to SARS-CoV-2, sugg…
There are no valid points of criticism in Tyshkovskiy and Panchin's response (10.1002/bies.202000325) to our paper "The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin" (DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000240)
Yuri Deigin, Rossana Segreto
Tyshkovskiy and Panchin have recently published a commentary on our paper in which they outline several "points of disagreement with the Segreto/Deigin hypothesis". As our paper is…
Unexpected novel Merbecovirus discoveries in agricultural sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China
Daoyu Zhang, Adrian Jones, Yuri Deigin +2
In this study we document the unexpected discovery of multiple coronaviruses and a BSL-3 pathogen in agricultural cotton and rice sequencing datasets. In particular, we have identi…
The bat coronavirus RmYN02 is characterized by a 6-nucleotide deletion at the S1/S2 junction, and its claimed PAA insertion is highly doubtful
Yuri Deigin, Rossana Segreto
Zhou et al. reported the discovery of RmYN02, a strain closely related to SARS-CoV-2, which is claimed to contain a natural PAA amino acid insertion at the S1/S2 junction of the sp…