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https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/emerging-viral-mutants-australia-suggest-rna-recombination-event-sars-cov-2 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/

https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/emerging-viral-mutants-australia-suggest-rna-recombination-event-sars-cov-2 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/emerging-viral-mut... “ Recombination in RNA viruses involves the exchange of genetic information between two nonsegmented RNA genomes, as distinct from the reassortment of RNA seen in viruses containing segmented genomes. ... The second virus family to be shown to undergo RNA recombination is coronavirus (Lai et al. 1985).” they can and do and you are naive for saying they do not

ohgreatwtf 6y ago
and didn’t you(where you means virtually everyone) already say a hundred “this can’t happen” before? when are you going to stop saying that something can’t happen and start talking about what to do when it does, or is everyone but me lost in an ego trip
gus_massa 6y ago
You are right about the possibilities of reconvinations in coronavirus, but I refer this article https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2614 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2614 It's somewhat similar to crossover.