/sci/ - Science & Math

An interesting excerpt from the last page
>The capacity of coronaviruses to undergo RNA-RNA recombination, coupled with the high theoretical error rate of the viral RNA polymerase (1 mutation in every 10,000 nucleotides), generates coronavirus genomes with changes that may be selectively advantageous in new environments or hosts. The recent discovery that corona-viruses may regulate replication fidelity suggests they may have novel mechanisms for adaptation to new hosts.