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Herpesvirus and adenovirus surveillance in threatened wild West Indian (Trichechus manatus) and Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis), Brazil. Acta Trop 2022; 237:106740. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Brito AF, Baele G, Nahata KD, Grubaugh ND, Pinney JW. Intrahost speciations and host switches played an important role in the evolution of herpesviruses. Virus Evol 2021; 7:veab025. [PMID: 33927887 PMCID: PMC8062258 DOI: 10.1093/ve/veab025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In times when herpesvirus genomic data were scarce, the cospeciation between these viruses and their hosts was considered to be common knowledge. However, as more herpesviral sequences were made available, tree reconciliation analyses started to reveal topological incongruences between host and viral phylogenies, indicating that other cophylogenetic events, such as intrahost speciation and host switching, likely played important roles along more than 200 million years of evolutionary history of these viruses. Tree reconciliations performed with undated phylogenies can identify topological differences, but offer insufficient information to reveal temporal incongruences between the divergence timing of host and viral species. In this study, we performed cophylogenetic analyses using time-resolved trees of herpesviruses and their hosts, based on careful molecular clock modelling. This approach enabled us to infer cophylogenetic events over time and also integrate information on host biogeography to better understand host-virus evolutionary history. Given the increasing amount of sequence data now available, mismatches between host and viral phylogenies have become more evident, and to account for such phylogenetic differences, host switches, intrahost speciations and losses were frequently found in all tree reconciliations. For all subfamilies in Herpesviridae, under all scenarios we explored, intrahost speciation and host switching were more frequent than cospeciation, which was shown to be a rare event, restricted to contexts where topological and temporal patterns of viral and host evolution were in strict agreement.
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- Anderson F Brito
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus. London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus. London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Leopardus wiedii Papillomavirus type 1, a novel papillomavirus species in the tree ocelot, suggests Felidae Lambdapapillomavirus polyphyletic origin and host-independent evolution. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2020; 81:104239. [PMID: 32058075 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The limited knowledge on Papillomavirus diversity (particularly in wild animal species) influences the accuracy of PVs phylogeny and their evolutionary history, and hinders the comprehension of PVs pathogenicity, especially the mechanism of virus - related cancer progression. This study reports the identification of Leopardus wiedii Papillomavirus type 1 (LwiePV1), the first PV type within Lambdapapillomavirus in a Leopardus host. LwiePV1 full genome sequencing allowed the investigation of its taxonomic position and phylogeny. Based on results, LwiePV1 should be assigned to a novel PV species providing evidence for a polyphyletic origin of feline lambda PVs, and representing an exception to codivergence between feline lambda PVs and their hosts. Results improve our knowledge on PV diversity and pave the way to future studies investigating biological and evolutionary features of animal PVs.
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PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE GENOME OF AN ENTERITIS-ASSOCIATED BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN MASTADENOVIRUS SUPPORTS A CLADE INFECTING THE CETARTIODACTYLA. J Wildl Dis 2017; 54:112-121. [PMID: 29077545 DOI: 10.7589/2017-03-052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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: Adenoviruses are nonenveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses, known to infect members of all tetrapod classes, with a similarity between phylogenies of hosts and viruses observed. We characterized bottlenose dolphin adenovirus 2 (BdAdV-2) found in a bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus) with enteritis. Virions were seen by negative staining electron microscopy of feces. Initial sequences obtained using conserved PCR primers were expanded using primer walking techniques, and the complete coding sequence was obtained. Phylogenetic analyses were consistent with coevolution of this virus and its bottlenose dolphin host, placing BdAdV-2 into a monophyletic group with other mastadenoviruses of Cetartiodactyla. When considering the low guanine/cytosine (G/C) content of BdAdV-2 with the phylogenetic data, this virus may represent a host-jumping event from another member of Cetartiodactyla. Analysis of partial polymerase indicated that bottlenose dolphin adenovirus 1, previously identified in Spain, and BdAdV-2 are sister taxa with harbor porpoise adenovirus 1, forming a cetacean clade. Bottlenose dolphin adenovirus 2 includes a highly divergent fiber gene. Two genes homologous to the dUTPase superfamily are also present which could play a role in enabling viral replication in nondividing cells. We used sequence data to develop a probe hybridization quantitative PCR assay specific to BdAdV-2 with a limit of detection of 10 copies.
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Drinkwater B, Charleston MA. A time and space complexity reduction for coevolutionary analysis of trees generated under both a Yule and Uniform model. Comput Biol Chem 2015; 57:61-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2015.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Drinkwater B, Charleston MA. Introducing TreeCollapse: a novel greedy algorithm to solve the cophylogeny reconstruction problem. BMC Bioinformatics 2014; 15 Suppl 16:S14. [PMID: 25521705 PMCID: PMC4290644 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-s16-s14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cophylogeny mapping is used to uncover deep coevolutionary associations between two or more phylogenetic histories at a macro coevolutionary scale. As cophylogeny mapping is NP-Hard, this technique relies heavily on heuristics to solve all but the most trivial cases. One notable approach utilises a metaheuristic to search only a subset of the exponential number of fixed node orderings possible for the phylogenetic histories in question. This is of particular interest as it is the only known heuristic that guarantees biologically feasible solutions. This has enabled research to focus on larger coevolutionary systems, such as coevolutionary associations between figs and their pollinator wasps, including over 200 taxa. Although able to converge on solutions for problem instances of this size, a reduction from the current cubic running time is required to handle larger systems, such as Wolbachia and their insect hosts. RESULTS Rather than solving this underlying problem optimally this work presents a greedy algorithm called TreeCollapse, which uses common topological patterns to recover an approximation of the coevolutionary history where the internal node ordering is fixed. This approach offers a significant speed-up compared to previous methods, running in linear time. This algorithm has been applied to over 100 well-known coevolutionary systems converging on Pareto optimal solutions in over 68% of test cases, even where in some cases the Pareto optimal solution has not previously been recoverable. Further, while TreeCollapse applies a local search technique, it can guarantee solutions are biologically feasible, making this the fastest method that can provide such a guarantee. CONCLUSION As a result, we argue that the newly proposed algorithm is a valuable addition to the field of coevolutionary research. Not only does it offer a significantly faster method to estimate the cost of cophylogeny mappings but by using this approach, in conjunction with existing heuristics, it can assist in recovering a larger subset of the Pareto front than has previously been possible.
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- Benjamin Drinkwater
- School of Information Technologies, 1 Cleveland St, 2006 University of Sydney, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
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- School of Information Technologies, 1 Cleveland St, 2006 University of Sydney, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
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Isolation of three novel rat and mouse papillomaviruses and their genomic characterization. PLoS One 2012; 7:e47164. [PMID: 23077564 PMCID: PMC3471917 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2012] [Accepted: 09/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Despite a growing knowledge about the biological diversity of papillomaviruses (PV), only little is known about non-human PV in general and about PV mice models in particular. We cloned and sequenced the complete genomes of two novel PV types from the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus; RnPV2) and the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus; AsPV1) as well as a novel variant of the recently described MmuPV1 (originally designated as MusPV) from a house mouse (Mus musculus; MmuPV1 variant). In addition, we conducted phylogenetic analyses using a systematically representative set of 79 PV types, including the novel sequences. As inferred from concatenated amino acid sequences of six proteins, MmuPV1 variant and AsPV1 nested within the Beta+Xi-PV super taxon as members of the Pi-PV. RnPV2 is a member of the Iota-PV that has a distant phylogenetic position from Pi-PV. The phylogenetic results support a complex scenario of PV diversification driven by different evolutionary forces including co-divergence with hosts and adaptive radiations to new environments. PV types particularly isolated from mice and rats are the basis for new animal models, which are valuable to study PV induced tumors and new treatment options.
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Gottschling M, Goker M, Stamatakis A, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Nindl I, Bravo IG. Quantifying the Phylodynamic Forces Driving Papillomavirus Evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2011; 28:2101-13. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Firth C, Kitchen A, Shapiro B, Suchard MA, Holmes EC, Rambaut A. Using time-structured data to estimate evolutionary rates of double-stranded DNA viruses. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 27:2038-51. [PMID: 20363828 PMCID: PMC3107591 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Double-stranded (ds) DNA viruses are often described as evolving through long-term codivergent associations with their hosts, a pattern that is expected to be associated with low rates of nucleotide substitution. However, the hypothesis of codivergence between dsDNA viruses and their hosts has rarely been rigorously tested, even though the vast majority of nucleotide substitution rate estimates for dsDNA viruses are based upon this assumption. It is therefore important to estimate the evolutionary rates of dsDNA viruses independent of the assumption of host-virus codivergence. Here, we explore the use of temporally structured sequence data within a Bayesian framework to estimate the evolutionary rates for seven human dsDNA viruses, including variola virus (VARV) (the causative agent of smallpox) and herpes simplex virus-1. Our analyses reveal that although the VARV genome is likely to evolve at a rate of approximately 1 x 10(-5) substitutions/site/year and hence approaching that of many RNA viruses, the evolutionary rates of many other dsDNA viruses remain problematic to estimate. Synthetic data sets were constructed to inform our interpretation of the substitution rates estimated for these dsDNA viruses and the analysis of these demonstrated that given a sequence data set of appropriate length and sampling depth, it is possible to use time-structured analyses to estimate the substitution rates of many dsDNA viruses independently from the assumption of host-virus codivergence. Finally, the discovery that some dsDNA viruses may evolve at rates approaching those of RNA viruses has important implications for our understanding of the long-term evolutionary history and emergence potential of this major group of viruses.
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- Cadhla Firth
- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
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A novel herpesvirus of the proposed genus Chelonivirus from an asymptomatic bowsprit tortoise (Chersina angulata). J Zoo Wildl Med 2010; 41:353-8. [PMID: 20597234 DOI: 10.1638/2009-0214r.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A wild-caught Bowsprit tortoise (Chersina angulata) was received into quarantine and appeared clinically normal. Oral swabs for consensus herpesvirus polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing were obtained during routine quarantine, and a novel herpesvirus was identified. Comparative sequence analysis shows that this virus is a member of the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae in the proposed genus Chelonivirus. Host/virus co-evolution appears to be common amongst herpesviruses and their hosts, and the most significant disease is typically seen when herpesviruses jump to related host species. Previous studies have found some diversity of herpesviruses in tortoises. This report expands the number of known herpesviruses of tortoises. It is reasonable to expect that there will be significantly different clinical consequences of different tortoise herpesviruses in different species, and that identification of host/virus relationships will aid in clinical management of tortoise collections. Further work is needed to determine the clinical implications of this and other tortoise herpesviruses in different tortoise species.
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The first complete papillomavirus genome characterized from a marsupial host: a novel isolate from Bettongia penicillata. J Virol 2010; 84:5448-53. [PMID: 20200246 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02635-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The first fully sequenced papillomavirus (PV) of marsupials, tentatively named Bettongia penicillata papillomavirus type 1 (BpPV1), was detected in papillomas from a woylie (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi). The circular, double-stranded DNA genome contains 7,737 bp and encodes 7 open reading frames (ORFs), E6, E7, E1, E2, E4, L2, and L1, in typical PV conformation. BpPV1 is a close-to-root PV with L1 and L2 ORFs most similar to European hedgehog PV and bandicoot papillomatosis carcinomatosis virus types 1 and 2 (BPCV1 and -2). It appears that the BPCVs arose by recombination between an ancient PV and an ancient polyomavirus more than 10 million years ago.
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Schulz E, Gottschling M, Wibbelt G, Stockfleth E, Nindl I. Isolation and genomic characterization of the first Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) papillomavirus and its phylogenetic position within Pipapillomavirus, primarily infecting rodents. J Gen Virol 2009; 90:2609-2614. [PMID: 19605590 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.012583-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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A series of papillomavirus (PV) types have been isolated from different rodent species, and most of them belong to the genus Pipapillomavirus. We isolated and sequenced the complete genome of a novel PV type (designated RnPV) from the oral cavity of the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), as well as an L1 gene fragment from hair-follicle cells of the European beaver (Castor fiber). As inferred from amino acid sequence data, RnPV clustered within the beta+gamma+pi+Xi-PV supertaxon as a member of the genus Pipapillomavirus. The closest relatives of RnPV were McPV-2 and MmPV, and time estimates indicated that the genus Pipapillomavirus originated in the late Cenozoic era. The close relationship of RnPV to other murid PV types supports the hypothesis of co-divergence between members of the genus Pipapillomavirus and their hosts. However, the derived Neogene origin of the genus Pipapillomavirus is much younger than has been considered for the Rodentia as the primary hosts, indicating that alternative interpretations of the phylogenetic trees should be conceived.
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- Eric Schulz
- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Systematic Botany, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung, Berlin, Germany
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- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- DKFZ - Charité, Viral Transformation Mechanisms, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.,Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Schulz E, Gottschling M, Bravo IG, Wittstatt U, Stockfleth E, Nindl I. Genomic characterization of the first insectivoran papillomavirus reveals an unusually long, second non-coding region and indicates a close relationship to Betapapillomavirus. J Gen Virol 2009; 90:626-633. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.008011-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Knowledge about biological diversity is the prerequisite to reliably reconstruct the evolution of pathogens such as papillomaviruses (PV). However, complete genomes of non-human PV have only been cloned and sequenced from 8 out of 18 orders within the Placentalia, although the host-specific variety of PV is considered much larger. We isolated and sequenced the complete genome of the first insectivoran PV type from hair follicle cells of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), designated EHPV. We conducted phylogenetic analyses (maximum-likelihood criterion and Bayesian inference) with the genomic information of a systematically representative set of 67 PV types including EHPV. As inferred from amino acid sequence data of the separate genes E1, E2 and L1 as well as of the gene combination E6–E7–E1–E2–L1, EHPV clustered within the β-γ-π-Ξ-PV supertaxon and constituted the closest relative of genus Betapapillomavirus infecting primates. Beside the typical organization of the PV genome, EHPV exhibited a 1172 bp, non-coding region between the E2 and the L2 open reading frames. This trait has been previously described for the only distantly related Lambdapapillomavirus, but a common evolutionary origin of both non-coding regions is unlikely. Our results underscore the modular organization of the PV genome and the complex natural history of PV.
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- Eric Schulz
- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Systematic Botany, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Experimental Molecular Evolution, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfälische Wilhems Universität Münster, Munster, Germany
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- Institute für Lebensmittel, Arzneimittel und Tierseuchen, Zentrum für Infektionsdiagnostik (ZID), Berlin, Germany
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- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- DKFZ – Charité, Viral Skin Carcinogenesis, Viral Transformation Mechanisms, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Skin Cancer Center Charité (HTCC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Baum BR, Edwards T, Johnson DA. Loss of 5S rDNA units in the evolution of Agropyron, Pseudoroegneria, and Douglasdeweya. Genome 2008; 51:589-98. [PMID: 18650949 DOI: 10.1139/g08-045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have investigated relationships among the three closely related genera Agropyron, Pseudoroegneria, and Douglasdeweya. Based upon grouping of 330 5S rDNA sequences into unit classes, we found that Douglasdeweya, with the genomic constitution PPStSt, has 2 unit classes, the long P1 and short S1, and Pseudoroegneria, with the genomic constitution StSt or StStStSt, has the long S1 and short S1 unit classes. In contrast, only the long P1 unit class was found in species of the genus Agropyron (PP). Having a single unit class is unique among all the genera of the tribe Triticeae investigated so far and may reflect gene loss or lineage sorting during its genesis. The presence of the short S1 and long P1 unit classes confirms the amphiploid origin of Douglasdeweya.
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- B R Baum
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A0C6, Canada.
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Jousselin E, Van Noort S, Berry V, Rasplus JY, Rønsted N, Erasmus JC, Greeff JM. ONE FIG TO BIND THEM ALL: HOST CONSERVATISM IN A FIG WASP COMMUNITY UNRAVELED BY COSPECIATION ANALYSES AMONG POLLINATING AND NONPOLLINATING FIG WASPS. Evolution 2008; 62:1777-1797. [PMID: 18419750 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00406.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Emmanuelle Jousselin
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS-30 016, 34 988 Montferrier sur Lez, France
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- Natural History Division, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, PO Box 61, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
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- Département Informatique, LIRMM- CNRS, 161, rue Ada 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS-30 016, 34 988 Montferrier sur Lez, France
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- Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3DS Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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Smith JA, Wellehan JFX, Pogranichniy RM, Childress AL, Landolfi JA, Terio KA. Identification and isolation of a novel herpesvirus in a captive mob of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Vet Microbiol 2007; 129:236-45. [PMID: 18191922 PMCID: PMC7117322 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2007] [Revised: 11/10/2007] [Accepted: 11/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A novel herpesvirus was detected in a captive mob of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) during diagnostic workup for individuals with ulcerative cloacitis. Virus was initially detected in tissues using a consensus herpesvirus PCR. No viral inclusions or particles had been evident in routine histologic or transmission electron microscopic sections of cloacal lesions. Virus was isolated from samples and transmission electron microscopy of the resulting isolates confirmed that the virus was morphologically consistent with a herpesvirus. Nucleotide sequencing of the PCR product from tissue samples and from the isolates revealed that the virus was in the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae and was distinct from other known herpesviruses. The correlation between the lesions and the novel virus remains unknown. Two herpesviruses, both in the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, have previously been described in macropods and are known to cause systemic clinical disease. This is the first reported gammaherpesvirus within the order Marsupialia, and may provide valuable information regarding the evolution and phylogeny of this virus family. Based on current herpesvirus nomenclature convention, the authors propose the novel herpesvirus be named Macropodid herpesvirus 3 (MaHV-3).
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Bravo IG, Alonso A. Phylogeny and evolution of papillomaviruses based on the E1 and E2 proteins. Virus Genes 2007; 34:249-62. [PMID: 16927128 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-006-0017-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2006] [Accepted: 06/09/2006] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Papillomaviridae are a family of small double-stranded DNA viruses that infect stratified squamous epithelia in vertebrates. Members of this family are causative agents of malignant tumours, such as cervical cancer while others are associated with benign proliferative lesions. So far, Papillomaviruses (PVs) are classified according to the sequence identity in the capsid gene L1. However, evidence has accumulated indicating a discontinuity in the evolutionary history of the L1 and L2 genes of many PVs, giving rise to differences in the phylogenetic reconstructions of the early and of the late genes. Neither the oncogenes E5, E6 and E7 nor the upstream regulatory region are suitable for phylogenetic inference due to the poor conservation along the Papillomaviridae family. We have analysed here the evolutionary relationships of the PVs with respect to the E1 and E2 proteins, and the results provide both phylogeny and biologic behaviour of the viruses. The hierarchical taxonomic relationships can be structured as an alternative classification system in which mucosal high-risk viruses, mucosal low-risk viruses and viruses associated with cutaneous lesions are grouped separately and do not appear intermingled. Some important trends are also observed: first, evolution of the PVs has not been homogeneous, even in viruses that infect the same host, and second mucosal human PVs have evolved faster than their cutaneous counterparts. The evolutionary analysis based on the E1 and E2 proteins will allow us to better understand the generation of the diversity of the PVs and the development of malignancy associated with these viruses.
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- Ignacio G Bravo
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (F050), Im Neuenheimer Feld-242, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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García-Vallvé S, Iglesias-Rozas JR, Alonso Á, Bravo IG. Different papillomaviruses have different repertoires of transcription factor binding sites: convergence and divergence in the upstream regulatory region. BMC Evol Biol 2006; 6:20. [PMID: 16526953 PMCID: PMC1421437 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2005] [Accepted: 03/09/2006] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Papillomaviruses (PVs) infect stratified squamous epithelia in warm-blooded vertebrates and have undergone a complex evolutionary process. The control of the expression of the early ORFs in PVs depends on the binding of cellular and viral transcription factors to the upstream regulatory region (URR) of the virus. It is believed that there is a core of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) common to all PVs, with additional individual differences, although most of the available information focuses only on a handful of viruses. Results We have studied the URR of sixty-one PVs, covering twenty different hosts. We have predicted the TFBS present in the URR and analysed these results by principal component analysis and genetic algorithms. The number and nature of TFBS in the URR might be much broader than thus far described, and different PVs have different repertoires of TFBS. Conclusion There are common fingerprints in the URR in PVs that infect primates, although the ancestors of these viruses diverged a long time ago. Additionally, there are obvious differences between the URR of alpha and beta PVs, despite these PVs infect similar histological cell types in the same host, i.e. human. A thorough analysis of the TFBS in the URR might provide crucial information about the differential biology of cancer-associated PVs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Santiago García-Vallvé
- Evolutionary Genomics Group. Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department. Rovira i Virgili University (URV), c/Marcel-li Domingo, s/n. Campus Sescelades, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
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- Klinikum Stuttgart. Katharinenhospital, Institut für Pathologie (Neuropathologie). Kriegsbergstr. 60, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum. F050. Im Neuenheimer Feld-242. 69120 Heidelberg. Germany
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- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum. F050. Im Neuenheimer Feld-242. 69120 Heidelberg. Germany
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McGeoch DJ, Rixon FJ, Davison AJ. Topics in herpesvirus genomics and evolution. Virus Res 2006; 117:90-104. [PMID: 16490275 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 353] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2005] [Revised: 01/04/2006] [Accepted: 01/06/2006] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Herpesviruses comprise an abundant, widely distributed group of large DNA viruses of humans and other vertebrates, and overall are among the most extensively studied large DNA viruses. Many herpesvirus genome sequences have been determined, and interpreted in terms of gene contents to give detailed views of both ubiquitous and lineage-specific functions. Availability of gene sequences has also enabled evaluations of evolutionary relationships. For herpesviruses of mammals, a robust phylogenetic tree has been constructed, which shows many features characteristic of synchronous development of virus and host lineages over large evolutionary timespans. It has also emerged that three distinct groupings of herpesviruses exist: the first containing viruses with mammals, birds and reptiles as natural hosts; the second containing viruses of amphibians and fish; and the third consisting of a single invertebrate herpesvirus. Within each of the first two groups, the genomes show clear evidence of descent from a common ancestor, but relationships between the three groups are extremely remote. Detailed analyses of capsid structures provide the best evidence for a common origin of the three groups. At a finer level, the structure of the capsid shell protein further suggests an element of common origin between herpesviruses and tailed DNA bacteriophages.
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- Duncan J McGeoch
- Medical Research Council Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, University of Glasgow, Church Street, Glasgow G11 5JR, UK.
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Hypsa V. Parasite histories and novel phylogenetic tools: Alternative approaches to inferring parasite evolution from molecular markers. Int J Parasitol 2006; 36:141-55. [PMID: 16387305 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2005] [Revised: 10/19/2005] [Accepted: 10/28/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Parasitological research is often contingent on the knowledge of the phylogeny/genealogy of the studied group. Although molecular phylogenetics has proved to be a powerful tool in such investigations, its application in the traditional fashion, based on a tree inference from the primary nucleotide sequences may, in many cases, be insufficient or even improper. These limitations are due to a number of factors, such as a scarcity/ambiguity of phylogenetic information in the sequences, an intricacy of gene relationships at low phylogenetic levels, or a lack of criteria when deciding among several competing coevolutionary scenarios. With respect to the importance of a precise and reliable phylogenetic background in many biological studies, attempts are being made to extend molecular phylogenetics with a variety of new data sources and methodologies. In this review, selected approaches potentially applicable to parasitological research are presented and their advantages as well as drawbacks are discussed. These issues include the usage of idiosyncratic markers (unique features with presumably low probability of homoplasy), such as insertion of mobile elements, gene rearrangements and secondary structure features; the problem of ancestral polymorphism and reticulate relationships at low phylogenetic levels; and the utility of a molecular clock to facilitate discrimination among alternative scenarios in host-parasite coevolution.
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- Václav Hypsa
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, and Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31, 37005 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic.
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García-Vallvé S, Alonso A, Bravo IG. Papillomaviruses: different genes have different histories. Trends Microbiol 2005; 13:514-21. [PMID: 16181783 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2005] [Revised: 08/25/2005] [Accepted: 09/13/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Papillomaviruses (PVs) infect stratified squamous epithelia in vertebrates. Some PVs are associated with different types of cancer and with certain benign lesions. It has been assumed that PVs coevolved with their hosts. However, recently it has been shown that different regions of the genome have different evolutionary histories. The PV genome has a modular nature and appeared after the addition of pre-existent blocks. This order of appearance in the PV genome is evident today in the different evolutionary rates of the different genes, with new genes--E5, E6 and E7--diverging faster than old genes--E1, E2, L2 and L1. Here, we propose an evolutionary framework aiming to integrate genome evolution, PV biology and epidemiology of PV infections.
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- Santiago García-Vallvé
- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department, Rovira i Virgili University (URV), c/ Marcel-li Domingo, s/n. Campus Sescelades, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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