Africa

Additional, more contagious variants of SARS-CoV-2 are likely to crop up, the Financial Times says.

South African researchers are investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines are effective against a SARS-CoV-2 strain recently identified there, the Associated Press reports.

The Globe and Mail reports UK researchers say their discovery of a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the importance of viral genomic surveillance.

A shipwreck has given researchers a glimpse into the elephants living in West Africa hundreds of years ago, Gizmodo reports.

In PLOS this week: investigation of pleiotropic effects using GWAS data, transcriptomic study of mosquitoes that spread Rift Valley fever, and more.

In PNAS this week: targeting progesterone signaling in ovarian cancer, LINE-1 retrotransposition events in adenocarcinomas, and more.

In PLOS this week: method to account for sequencing errors in phylogenies, study of influenza A in Switzerland, and more.

In Science this week: single-cell atlases of human fetal gene expression, chromatin accessibility; SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Kenya; more.