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Base Composition and Translational Selection are Insufficient to Explain Codon Usage Bias in Plant VirusesDaniel J Cardinale
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Viruses 5:162-81. 2013..Constraints such as genomic architecture and secondary structure can and do influence codon usage in plant viruses, and likely in viruses of other hosts...
A divergent variant of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 is present in CaliforniaYeemey Seah
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Virol J 9:235. 2012..During a survey of Napa Valley vineyards (California, USA), we found evidence of a new variant of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3). We isolated its genome from a symptomatic greenhouse-raised plant and fully sequenced it...
Experimental evidence indicating that mastreviruses probably did not co-diverge with their hostsGordon W Harkins
South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Virol J 6:104. 2009..The credibility of this hypothesis, therefore, hinges on the testable claim that negative selection during mastrevirus evolution is so potent that it effectively purges 99.999% of all mutations that occur...
Validation of high rates of nucleotide substitution in geminiviruses: phylogenetic evidence from East African cassava mosaic virusesSiobain Duffy
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Gen Virol 90:1539-47. 2009..We also validated our rate estimates by comparing them with those depicting the emergence of TYLCV in North America. These results further support the notion that geminiviruses evolve as rapidly as many RNA viruses...
Phylogenetic evidence for rapid rates of molecular evolution in the single-stranded DNA begomovirus tomato yellow leaf curl virusSiobain Duffy
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Virol 82:957-65. 2008..Our results therefore suggest that the high evolutionary rate of the geminiviruses is not primarily due to frequent recombination and may explain their ability to emerge in novel hosts...
Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinantsSiobain Duffy
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Mueller Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Nat Rev Genet 9:267-76. 2008....
Insights into the evolutionary history of an emerging livestock pathogen: porcine circovirus 2Cadhla Firth
Department of Biology, Mueller Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J Virol 83:12813-21. 2009..This high rate of evolution may allow PCV2 to maintain evolutionary dynamics closer to those of single-stranded RNA viruses than to those of double-stranded DNA viruses, further facilitating the rapid emergence of PCV2 worldwide...
98% identical, 100% wrong: per cent nucleotide identity can lead plant virus epidemiology astraySiobain Duffy
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:1891-7. 2010..An increased use of phylogenetic methods in short-form publications could speed our understanding of these cryptic second introductions and aid in control of epidemics...
Multiple introductions of the Old World begomovirus Tomato yellow leaf curl virus into the New WorldSiobain Duffy
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7114-7. 2007..This analysis supports a second introduction of this Old World begomovirus into the New World, most likely from Asia...
One misdated sequence of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus prevents accurate estimation of its nucleotide substitution rateAllison L Hicks
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
BMC Evol Biol 12:74. 2012....
Genus-specific substitution rate variability among picornavirusesAllison L Hicks
Department of Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
J Virol 85:7942-7. 2011..Both a structural and a nonstructural gene show that enteroviruses are evolving, on average, a half order of magnitude faster than members of other genera within the Picornaviridae family...
