E References

All sequences were downloaded from NCBI’s GenBank. We used sequence data from the following accession numbers: OX315675.1 (omicron.2), OP093374.1 (omicron.4), OP093373.1 (omicron.5), OK091006.1 (delta), NC_045512.2 (Wuhan_reference), OX003129.1 (beta), OX315743.1 (omicron.1), OW998592.1 (alpha), MW911054.1 (gamma).

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