RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Direct RNA sequencing and early evolution of SARS-CoV-2 JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2020.03.05.976167 DO 10.1101/2020.03.05.976167 A1 George Taiaroa A1 Daniel Rawlinson A1 Leo Featherstone A1 Miranda Pitt A1 Leon Caly A1 Julian Druce A1 Damian Purcell A1 Leigh Harty A1 Thomas Tran A1 Jason Roberts A1 Mike Catton A1 Deborah Williamson A1 Lachlan Coin A1 Sebastian Duchene YR 2020 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/03/07/2020.03.05.976167.abstract AB The rapid sharing of sequence information as seen throughout the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, represents an inflection point for genomic epidemiology. Here we describe aspects of coronavirus evolutionary genetics revealed from these data, and provide the first direct RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2, detailing coronaviral subgenome-length mRNA architecture.