AIC	Akaike Information Criterion
aLRT-SH	Approximate likelihood Shimodaira-Hasegawa statistical support
BEAST	Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees
COVID-19	Coronavirus disease 2019
D614G	Replacement of aspartic acid by glycine at position 614 of the spike glycoprotein
del	Deletion
E484K	Replacement of glutamic acid by lysine at position 484 of the spike glycoprotein
ESS	Effective sample size
GISAID	The global science initiative and primary source for genomic data of influenza viruses
K417N	Replacement of lysine by asparagine at position 417 of the spike glycoprotein
MCC	Maximum clade credibility
MCMC	Markov chain Monte Carlo
ML	Maximum likelihood
N501Y	Replacement of asparagine by tyrosine at position 501 of the spike glycoprotein
Ne	Effective population size
ORF	Open reading frame
P681H	Replacement of proline by histidine at position 681 of the spike glycoprotein
PROVEAN	Protein Variation Effect Analyzer tool
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
S	Spike gene of SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2	Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
tMRCA	Time to the most recent common ancestor
UK	United Kingdom