lyra11 lyra11 lyra11 is a sars-like coronavirus (sl-cov) which was identified in 2011 in samples of intermediate horseshoe bats in baoshan, yunnan, china. the genome of this virus strain is 29805nt long, and the similarity to the whole genome sequence of sars-cov that caused the sars outbreak is 91%. it was published in 2014. like sars-cov and sars-cov-2, lyra11 virus uses ace2 as a receptor for infecting cells. lyra11 virus classification (unranked): virus realm: riboviria kingdom: orthornavirae phylum: pisuviricota class: pisoniviricetes order: nidovirales family: coronaviridae genus: betacoronavirus subgenus: sarbecovirus species: sars-related coronavirus strain: lyra11 phylogenetic a phylogenetic tree based on whole-genome sequences of sars-cov-1 and related coronaviruses is: sars‑cov‑1 related coronavirus 16bo133, 86.3% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, north jeolla, south korea jtmc15, 86.4% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, tonghua, jilin bat sars cov rf1, 87.8% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, yichang, hubei btcov hku3, 87.9% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus sinicus, hong kong and guangdong lyra11, 90.9% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus affinis, baoshan, yunnan bat sars-cov/rp3, 92.6% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus pearsoni, nanning, guangxi bat sl-cov ynlf_31c, 93.5% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, lufeng, yunnan bat sl-cov ynlf_34c, 93.5% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, lufeng, yunnan shc014-cov, 95.4% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus sinicus, kunming, yunnan wiv1, 95.6% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus sinicus, kunming, yunnan wiv16, 96.0% to sars-cov-1, rhinolophus sinicus kunming, yunnan civet sars-cov, 99.8% to sars-cov-1, paguma larvata, market in guangdong, china sars-cov-1 sars-cov-2, 79% to sars-cov-1