[Thread] Wang et al. (2021):
Another article revealing trips to the Mojiang mine and Laos was kept in the limbo when the pandemic started.
Note: The article covers HKU10 viruses which are not related with SARS-like

It was "received" by the journal on 30 July 2021, but the sequences were accessioned in Genbank on 17-SEP-2019.
So it seems that this article may have prior rejections or have been withdrawn from other journals.
https://t.co/laNmTabCuk
One of the samples is 4996 (note that RaTG13 = 4991).
There is a small discrepancy: 4991 was collected on 24-Jul-13 but this one on 21-Jul-13.
4996 is 100% identical to MJ_67C (from HKU team when they went to Mojiang) and clusters with 3723 (Mojiang).
https://t.co/XqMEyEi45T
Btw, 3740 (Mojiang) and 7345 also cluster together, supporting that 7345 is from Tongguan/Mojiang as we already deduced a year ago.
https://t.co/gpwX4bhVcS
The article does not explicitly say they collected samples from Mojiang, although the low-res map confirms it.
It is very surprising to see how they studied recombination events of 3 HKU10 viruses in the Mojiang mine (not mentioning the location) while showing great disregard for the SARS-like viruses also from there by not studying them at all.
Do you believe it?
And we can now confirm Laos location for Latinne et al. (2020) https://t.co/CQqIY5xZAb
This author Wang is the 2nd author of Ge et al. (2016), who published 4991. Her thesis is the precursor of this article and also of Wang et al. (2019).
https://t.co/0C4Lw1VkRN
Another interesting thing: Wang appears again as affiliated to WIV. Did she ended her academic stay with Shibo Jiang in NY? Or maybe it is because this is an "old" article?
LBZ is also a co-author. But only one accession acknowledge him as collector (HN140937 from Hainan)
https://t.co/rJbP78MGvv
Famous 2013FY113500 grant and PREDICT grants again:
Apparently all accessions are now released because the accessions immediately before and after this range are published and used by other teams (MN477898 and MN477916).
But who knows, there could be interesting emails like those of Ben Hu regarding the delay of Latinne's seqs.
The records were not released when the article was published. I asked NCBI staff to release them since the article was finally published.
Are there more articles in the limbo or more sequences accessioned before the pandemic but not released yet?
What happened between 26-Oct-14 and 03-Nov-14? and after going to Laos? back to the mine? (6th trip)
There are some gaps of IDs, e.g. between last ID from Laos (7590) and 1st ID from the mine (7683). 92 samples is more than the average outcome for a day.
https://t.co/8J00bs8uwj
Sampling locations contradictions with Latinne et al. (2020):
https://t.co/a0H8kublAV
Wang et al. (2021) acknowledge no Rhinolophus affinis from Laos contradicting PREDICT and EHA data:
https://t.co/bDuSIQh0Qn
Metadata from the Excel files for Table S1 and S5:
"Authors"="wangning"
"Content created"="05-Jun-15"
(which is just after the 7th trip to Mojiang)
Not easy to extrapolate HKU10 to SARS-like viruses, but see how viruses from Mojiang and Luang Namtha tend to cluster very close and even sandwiched.
e.g.: YN7345, LA7546 and YN4996
To end, just a reminder of the case of Latinne et al. (2020) https://t.co/F1XNupaGhl
I missed this one:
"cave"

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