Paleovirology of the DNA viruses of eukaryotes

JGN Barreat, A Katzourakis - Trends in Microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Paleovirology is the study of ancient viruses and how they have coevolved with their hosts.
An increasingly detailed understanding of the diversity, origins, and evolution of the DNA …

Deep mining reveals the diversity of endogenous viral elements in vertebrate genomes

JG Nino Barreat, A Katzourakis - Nature Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Integration of viruses into host genomes can give rise to endogenous viral elements (EVEs),
which provide insights into viral diversity, host range and evolution. A systematic search for …

Comparative analysis of genome-encoded viral sequences reveals the evolutionary history of flavivirids (family Flaviviridae)

CGG Bamford, WM de Souza, R Parry… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Flavivirids (family Flaviviridae) are a group of positive-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses
that pose serious risks to human and animal health on a global scale. Here, we use flavivirid …

[HTML][HTML] Deep mining reveals the diversity of endogenous viral elements in vertebrate genomes

JGN Barreat, A Katzourakis - Nature Microbiology, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Integration of viruses into host genomes can give rise to endogenous viral elements (EVEs),
which provide insights into viral diversity, host range and evolution. A systematic search for …

A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus fossil record

D Blanco-Melo, MA Campbell, H Zhu, TPW Dennis… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Genomic regions that remain poorly understood, often referred to as the dark
genome, contain a variety of functionally relevant and biologically informative features …

Structural conservation of HBV-like capsid proteins over hundreds of millions of years despite the shift from non-enveloped to enveloped life-style

S Pfister, J Rabl, T Wiegand, S Mattei, AA Malär… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The discovery of nackednaviruses provided new insight into the evolutionary history of the
hepatitis B virus (HBV): The common ancestor of HBV and nackednaviruses was non …

Comparative analysis reveals the long-term coevolutionary history of parvoviruses and vertebrates

MA Campbell, S Loncar, RM Kotin, RJ Gifford - PLoS Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Parvoviruses (family Parvoviridae) are small DNA viruses that cause numerous diseases of
medical, veterinary, and agricultural significance and have important applications in gene …

Discovery and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Hepadnavirus from Asymptomatic Anadromous Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)

C Raines, J Lovy, N Phelps, S Mor, TFF Ng… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) is an anadromous herring that inhabits waters of
northeastern North America. This prey species is a critical forage for piscivorous birds …

Genetic diversity and phylogeographic dynamics of avihepadnavirus: a comprehensive full-length genomic view

M Sikandar, PT Shah, L Xing - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Avihepadnavirus is a genus of the Hepadnaviridae family. It primarily infects birds, including
species of duck, geese, cranes, storks, and herons etc. To understand the genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Viral genome integration into the host cell genome: a double edged-sword

ECG da Mata Kanzaki, I Kanzaki - Discovery Medicine, 2021 - discoverymedicine.com
Genetic information exchange between virus and host cells apparently seems to be
detrimental, as pluricellular organisms could develop diseases. Nevertheless, during billion …