[HTML][HTML] 50-plus years of fungal viruses

SA Ghabrial, JR Castón, D Jiang, ML Nibert, N Suzuki - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Mycoviruses are widespread in all major taxa of fungi. They are transmitted intracellularly
during cell division, sporogenesis, and/or cell-to-cell fusion (hyphal anastomosis), and thus …

Fungal viruses unveiled: a comprehensive review of mycoviruses

B Hough, E Steenkamp, B Wingfield, D Read - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycoviruses (viruses of fungi) are ubiquitous throughout the fungal kingdom and are
currently classified into 23 viral families and the genus botybirnavirus by the International …

Refactored genetic codes enable bidirectional genetic isolation

JF Zürcher, WE Robertson, T Kappes, G Petris… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The near-universal genetic code defines the correspondence between codons in genes and
amino acids in proteins. We refactored the structure of the genetic code in Escherichia coli …

[图书][B] Life in the Universe

D Schulze-Makuch, LN Irwin - 2004 - Springer
While grounded in the hard sciences of physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy, as well
as well-accepted principles in the life sciences, astrobiology remains the most speculative of …

A survey of transposable element classification systems–a call for a fundamental update to meet the challenge of their diversity and complexity

B Piégu, S Bire, P Arensburger, Y Bigot - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The increase of publicly available sequencing data has allowed for rapid progress in our
understanding of genome composition. As new information becomes available we should …

Mapping the virome in wild-caught Aedes aegypti from Cairns and Bangkok

M Zakrzewski, G Rašić, J Darbro, L Krause, YS Poo… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Medically important arboviruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses are
primarily transmitted by the globally distributed mosquito Aedes aegypti. Increasing …

Evolutionary instability of CUG-Leu in the genetic code of budding yeasts

T Krassowski, AY Coughlan, XX Shen, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The genetic code used in nuclear genes is almost universal, but here we report that it
changed three times in parallel during the evolution of budding yeasts. All three changes …

Structures of L-BC virus and its open particle provide insight into Totivirus capsid assembly

D Grybchuk, M Procházková, T Füzik… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
L-BC virus persists in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whereas other viruses
from the family Totiviridae infect a diverse group of organisms including protists, fungi …

VIRULIGN: fast codon-correct alignment and annotation of viral genomes

PJK Libin, K Deforche, AB Abecasis, K Theys - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Virus sequence data are an essential resource for reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics
of viral spread as well as to inform treatment and prevention strategies. However, the …

Mechanisms underlying the inhibition of interferon signaling by viruses

AS Devasthanam - Virulence, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A hallmark of the antiviral response is the induction of interferons. First discovered in 1957
by Issac and Lindeman, interferons are noted for their ability to interfere with viral replication …