So the article references the market samples with Raccoon Dog mtDNA with some SARS2 within it. But here is the problem when you look at the samples there is a high abundance of animal viruses such as bamboo rat CoV, canine CoV HeB-G1, rabbit CoV HKU14, and canine CoV SD-F3. But a very low abundance of SARS2 so much so that SARS2 is negatively associated with non human mtDNA.
> Mitochondrial material from most susceptible non-human species sold live at the market is negatively correlated with the presence of SARS-CoV-2: for instance, thirteen of the fourteen samples with at least a fifth of their chordate mitochondrial material from raccoon dogs contain no SARS-CoV-2 reads, and the other sample contains just 1 of ~200,000,000 reads mapping to SARS-CoV-2
> Mitochondrial material from most susceptible non-human species sold live at the market is negatively correlated with the presence of SARS-CoV-2: for instance, thirteen of the fourteen samples with at least a fifth of their chordate mitochondrial material from raccoon dogs contain no SARS-CoV-2 reads, and the other sample contains just 1 of ~200,000,000 reads mapping to SARS-CoV-2
https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/9/2/vead050/7249794?logi...
Study on what viruses such as canine CoVs where highly correlated with animals like Raccoon Dog:
https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/10/1/vead089/7504441?log...