Puzzles, challenges, and information reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 quasispecies

E Domingo, B Martínez-González… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Upon the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the human population, it was conjectured that for
this coronavirus the dynamic intra-host heterogeneity typical of RNA viruses would be toned …

Next-generation sequencing for confronting virus pandemics

J Quer, S Colomer-Castell, C Campos, C Andrés… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Virus pandemics have happened, are happening and will happen again. In recent decades,
the rate of zoonotic viral spillover into humans has accelerated, mirroring the expansion of …

Genetic drift, purifying selection and vector genotype shape dengue virus intra-host genetic diversity in mosquitoes

S Lequime, A Fontaine, M Ar Gouilh… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Due to their error-prone replication, RNA viruses typically exist as a diverse population of
closely related genomes, which is considered critical for their fitness and adaptive potential …

Deep sequencing: becoming a critical tool in clinical virology

ME Quiñones-Mateu, S Avila, G Reyes-Teran… - Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Population (Sanger) sequencing has been the standard method in basic and clinical DNA
sequencing for almost 40 years; however, next-generation (deep) sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Viral quasispecies complexity measures

J Gregori, C Perales, F Rodriguez-Frias, JI Esteban… - Virology, 2016 - Elsevier
Mutant spectrum dynamics (changes in the related mutants that compose viral populations)
has a decisive impact on virus behavior. The several platforms of next generation …

Within-host viral diversity: a window into viral evolution

AS Lauring - Annual Review of Virology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary dynamics of a virus can differ within hosts and across populations. Studies
of within-host evolution provide an important link between experimental studies of virus …

Extreme infectious titer variability in individual Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus is associated with both differences in virus population structure …

P Hodoameda, GD Ebel, S Mukhopadhyay… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Variability in how individuals respond to pathogens is a hallmark of infectious disease, yet
the basis for individual variation in host response is often poorly understood. The titer of …

High-resolution hepatitis C virus subtyping using NS5B deep sequencing and phylogeny, an alternative to current methods

J Quer, J Gregori, F Rodríguez-Frias… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is classified into seven major genotypes and 67 subtypes. Recent
studies have shown that in HCV genotype 1-infected patients, response rates to regimens …

Lethal mutagenesis of hepatitis C virus induced by favipiravir

AI De Ávila, I Gallego, ME Soria, J Gregori, J Quer… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Lethal mutagenesis is an antiviral approach that consists in extinguishing a virus by an
excess of mutations acquired during replication in the presence of a mutagen. Here we …

Metagenomic analysis of primary colorectal carcinomas and their metastases identifies potential microbial risk factors

L Marongiu, JJM Landry, T Rausch… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The paucity of microbiome studies at intestinal tissues has contributed to a yet limited
understanding of potential viral and bacterial cofactors of colorectal cancer (CRC) …