10.5281/zenodo.4319525
https://zenodo.org/records/4319525
oai:zenodo.org:4319525
Daoyu Zhang
Daoyu Zhang
The University Of Sydney
The Pan-SL-CoV/GD sequences may be from contamination.
Zenodo
2020
Pan-SL-CoV
MP789
Sequence Reade Archive
SRA
2020-06-08
eng
10.5281/zenodo.3885332
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
ABSTRACT
Recently, There were much hype about an alleged SARS-like coronavirus being found in samples of Malayan pangolins (Manis Javanica) possessing nearly identical RBD to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Prominent journals cite the alleged discovery to claim that pangolins may be one of a possible intermediate host for the zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans.
Here, we report that all databases used to support such a claim, upon which metagenomic analysis was possible, contained unexpected reads and was in serious risk of contamination. Here we also report that the presence of unexpected reads are directly related to the presence of coronavirus reads. Finally, we deduced the actual causative agent of the death of the pangolins sampled in GuangDong 2019 where the claim of coronavirus detections was made.