Weifeng Shi

Research interests

Publications

• The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04188-6

• Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses

  Cell · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.008

• A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2001017

• A Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Contains Natural Insertions at the S1/S2 Cleavage Site of the Spike Protein

  Current Biology · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.023

• Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding

  The Lancet · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30251-8

• Dominant subtype switch in avian influenza viruses during 2016–2019 in China

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19671-3

• Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 and the molecular basis for SARS-CoV-2 binding to cat ACE2

  Cell Discovery · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41421-020-00210-9

• The evolution of Zika virus from Asia to the Americas

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0134-9

• Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0010-9

• A single mutation in the prM protein of Zika virus contributes to fetal microcephaly

  Science · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam7120

• Novel Drying Techniques for Spices and Herbs: a Review

  Food Engineering Reviews · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s12393-017-9165-7

• Human infections with recently-emerging highly pathogenic H7N9 avian influenza virus in China

  Journal of Infection · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2017.04.001

• Genesis, Evolution and Prevalence of H5N6 Avian Influenza Viruses in China

  Cell Host & Microbe · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2016.10.022

• Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses

  Trends in Microbiology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2016.03.003

• Genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14490

• Dynamic reassortments and genetic heterogeneity of the human-infecting influenza A (H7N9) virus

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4142

• Poultry carrying H9N2 act as incubators for novel human avian influenza viruses

  The Lancet · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60386-x

• Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyses

  The Lancet · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60938-1

• Performance of criteria for selecting evolutionary models in phylogenetics: a comprehensive study based on simulated datasets

  BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-242

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