Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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A proposal to enhance national capability to manage epidemics: The critical importance of expert statistical input including official statistics
Published 2021Given the high level of global mobility, pandemics are likely to be more frequent, and with potentially devastating consequences for our way of life. With COVID-19, Australia is in relatively better shape than most other ...Article -
Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses
Published 2021Summary Although a variety of SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses have been identified, the evolutionary origins of this virus remain elusive. We describe a meta-transcriptomic study of 411 samples collected from 23 bat ...Preprint -
The effect of COVID19 pandemic restrictions on an urban rodent population
Published 2021Shortly after the enactment of restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, various local government and public health authorities around the world reported an increased sighting of rats. Such reports have yet ...Article -
Slippery When wet: Cross-Species Transmission of Divergent Coronaviruses in Bony and Jawless Fish and The Evolutionary History of the Coronaviridae
Published 2021Abstract The Nidovirales comprise a genetically diverse group of positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus families that infect a range of invertebrate and vertebrate hosts. Recent metagenomic studies have identified nido-like ...Article -
Temporal evolution, most influential studies and sleeping beauties of the coronavirus literature
Published 2021Following the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 disease, within less than 8 months, the 50 years-old scholarly literature of coronaviruses grew to nearly three times larger than its size prior to 2020. Here, temporal evolution of the ...Article