Genome characterization based on the Spike-614 and NS8-84 loci of SARS-CoV-2 reveals two major possible onsets of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Xiaowen Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaowen Hu, Yaojia Mu, Ruru Deng

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Microbiology of Hainan Province, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China, Institute of South Subtropical Crops, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

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• Yaojia Mu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaowen Hu, Yaojia Mu, Ruru Deng

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbiology of Hainan Province, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

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• Ruru Deng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaowen Hu, Yaojia Mu, Ruru Deng

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbiology of Hainan Province, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

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• Guohui Yi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Public Research Laboratory, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China

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• Lei Yao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangjiaming@itbb.org.cn (JZ); yaolei2009@gmail.com (LY)

  Affiliation Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study and the Center for Medical Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China

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• Jiaming Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangjiaming@itbb.org.cn (JZ); yaolei2009@gmail.com (LY)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbiology of Hainan Province, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-1074

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