As a result, the virus sat on a “long branch” of the influenza phylogenetic tree, separated by many mutational differences from other swine flu viruses. Also, the virus’s proteins had an abundance of ...

The findings were sent to Munich-headquartered GISAID, a body established in 2008 to provide open access to genomic data of influenza ... or plotted on a phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 viruses.