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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Blood Genom. 2020;4(2):96–107. doi: 10.46701/BG.2020022020120

Fig. 4. Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and representative viruses of the genus Betacoronavirus.

Fig. 4

Adopted from Lu R. et al[33]. Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and its closely related reference genomes revealed that SARS-CoV-2 belonged to the subgenus Sarbecovirus. The ten SARS-CoV-2 strains from Wuhan and the two bat-derived SARS-like strains from eastern China (bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21) formed a clade, while SARS-CoV-2 strains from humans and genetically similar SARS-like coronaviruses from bats of southwestern China formed another clade.