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| Robert BelshawSummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Viral mutation and substitution: units and levelsRobert Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Curr Opin Virol 1:430-5. 2011..A better understanding of the complexities underlying the molecular evolution of viruses in natural populations is needed before accurate predictions of viral evolution can be made...
Rate of recombinational deletion among human endogenous retrovirusesRobert Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
J Virol 81:9437-42. 2007....- Pacing a small cage: mutation and RNA virusesRobert Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Trends Ecol Evol 23:188-93. 2008..We explain the many terms used in investigating RNA viral evolution and highlight the specific experimental and comparative work that needs to be done... - The evolution of genome compression and genomic novelty in RNA virusesRobert Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Genome Res 17:1496-504. 2007..We suggest that RNA viruses are a good model system for the investigation of general evolutionary relationship between genome attributes such as mutational robustness, mutation rate, and size... - The RNA virus databaseRobert Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 37:D431-5. 2009..It is available at the following four mirrored sites. http://virus.zoo.ox.ac.uk/rnavirusdb; http://hivweb.sanbi.ac.za/rnavirusdb; http://bioinf.cs.auckland.ac.nz/rnavirusdb; http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/rnavirusdb... 
The rise and falls of intronsR Belshaw
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Heredity (Edinb) 96:208-13. 2006....- Genomewide screening reveals high levels of insertional polymorphism in the human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-K(HML2): implications for present-day activityRobert Belshaw
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, Ascot, Berks, United Kingdom
J Virol 79:12507-14. 2005..This view of the family from a population perspective rather than a genome perspective will inform the current debate about a possible role of HERV-K(HML2) in human disease... - Phylogenetic evidence for deleterious mutation load in RNA viruses and its contribution to viral evolutionOliver G Pybus
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 24:845-52. 2007..From this relationship, we propose an empirical threshold for the maximum viable deleterious mutation load in RNA viruses... - Conserved footprints of APOBEC3G on Hypermutated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K(HML2) sequencesAndrew E Armitage
MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
J Virol 82:8743-61. 2008.... - Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retrovirusesRobert Belshaw
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4894-9. 2004..Analysis of the env gene of eight other HERV families indicated that reinfection is likely to be the most common mechanism by which endogenous retroviruses proliferate in their hosts... - Env-less endogenous retroviruses are genomic superspreadersGkikas Magiorkinis
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:7385-90. 2012.... - BlastAlign: a program that uses blast to align problematic nucleotide sequencesRobert Belshaw
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, UK
Bioinformatics 21:122-3. 2005..AVAILABILITY: It is freely available at http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/belshaw/BlastAlign.tar and at http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/software/blastalign... - Integrating phylodynamics and epidemiology to estimate transmission diversity in viral epidemicsGkikas Magiorkinis
Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
PLoS Comput Biol 9:e1002876. 2013..We anticipate that this integrated approach will form the basis of powerful tools for describing the transmission dynamics of chronic viral diseases, and for evaluating control strategies directed against them... - Detecting remote sequence homology in disordered proteins: discovery of conserved motifs in the N-termini of Mononegavirales phosphoproteinsDavid Karlin
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e31719. 2012.... - Robustness of ancestral state estimates: evolution of life history strategy in ichneumonoid parasitoidsRobert Belshaw
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
Syst Biol 51:450-77. 2002..We also discuss relationships within the superfamily and expand the Mesostoinae to include all the gall-associated braconids that form the sister group of the Aphidiinae... - Morphometric and molecular analysis of the Encarsia inaron species-group (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)S Manzari
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
Bull Entomol Res 92:165-76. 2002..estrellae, and the placement of E. dichroa (Mercet) in the E. inaron species-group. Additionally, E. inaron is redescribed and some taxonomic problems in the E. inaron species-group are discussed... - High copy number in human endogenous retrovirus families is associated with copying mechanisms in addition to reinfectionRobert Belshaw
Mol Biol Evol 22:814-7. 2005..We discuss why these other mechanisms are rare in most families and suggest why complementation in trans is significant only in the larger families...