The 29-nucleotide deletion in SARS-CoV: truncated versions of ORF8 are under purifying selection
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CONCLUSIONS: Our results for SARS-CoV echo the known excess of deletions in the ORF7a-ORF7b-ORF8 complex of accessory genes in SARS-CoV-2. A high frequency of deletions in this gene complex might reflect recurrent searches in "functional space" of
