Recombination events are concentrated in the spike protein region of Betacoronaviruses

• Louis-Marie Bobay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0438-545X

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• Angela C. O’Donnell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1408-5431

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• Howard Ochman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: howard.ochman@austin.utexas.edu

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-7059

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