The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Description
The emergence of SARS-CoV in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 has led to increased sampling of related sarbecoviruses circulating primarily in horseshoe bats. These viruses undergo frequent recombination and exhibit spatial structuring across Asia
