Response to comments on "Cross‐species Transmission of the Newly Identified Coronavirus 2019‐nCoV” and “Codon bias analysis may be insufficient for identifying host(s) of a novel virus”

Abstract

We have recently reported for the first time that SARS‐CoV‐2 maybe a bat‐originated coronavirus with a recombination occurred within the spike (S) protein gene based on phylogenetic and simplot analyses¹. These two conclusions are supported by findings recently reported by others and are well accepted in the field of SARS‐CoV‐2 research^2‐4.