%0 Journal Article %T Global genomic diversity and conservation of SARS-CoV-2 since the COVID-19 outbreak. %A Li H %A Ding L %A Liao R %A Li N %A Hong X %A Jiang Z %A Liu D %J Microbiol Spectr %V 11 %N 6 %D 2023 Dec 12 %M 37909759 %F 9.043 %R 10.1128/spectrum.02826-23 %X OBJECTIVE: Our results indicate that most severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 genomes sampled from patients had a mutation rate ≤1.07 ‰ and genome-tail proteins (including S protein) were the main sources of genetic polymorphism. The analysis of the virus-host interaction network of genome-tail proteins showed that they shared some antiviral signaling pathways, especially the intracellular protein transport pathway.