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University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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This tree is a summary of the selected host transformations in the clade of Betacoronavirus associated with SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. Bats have been fundamental hosts of these human coronaviruses. The host transformations indicated by dotted lines are independent events that are not important to the origins of these human coronaviruses.

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Denis Jacob Machado

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