Rc-o319 is a bat-derived strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus collected in little Japanese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus cornutus) from sites in Iwate, Japan. It has an 81% similarity to SARS-CoV-2 and is the earliest strain branch of the SARS-CoV-2 related coronavirus.
Phylogenetics A phylogenetic tree based on whole-genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses is:
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