Willemsen, Anouk; Zwart, Mark Peter; Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; Carrasco Jiménez, José Luis; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press, 2017)
[EN] Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is pervasive in viruses and thought to be a key mechanism in their evolution. On the other hand, strong selective constraints against increasing genome size are an impediment for HGT, ...
Navarro, Rebeca; Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; Martinez, Fernando; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco.(IOP Publishing - Europhysics Letters, 2017)
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Understanding how genetic drift, mutation and selection interplay in determining the evolutionary fate of populations is one of the central themes of Evolutionary Biology. Theory predicts that by increasing the number ...
Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Rosario, S.; Butkovic, Anamarija; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press, 2018)
[EN] Functional redundancy, understood as the functional overlap of different genes, is a double-edge sword. At the one side, it is thought to serve as a robustness mechanism that buffers the deleterious effect of mutations ...
Gómez Muñoz, Neus(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-01-15)
La tristeza es la enfermedad viral más grave del cultivo de los cÃtricos y su agente causal es el virus de la tristeza de los cítricos (CTV). CTV induce uno o más de los siguientes síndromes: I) decaimiento y muerte de ...
Navarro López, Josep Amadeu(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-11-06)
Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a viral species of the Closterovirus genus, having a ¿20 kb single-stranded and positive sense genomic RNA (gRNA) organized into 12 open reading frames (ORFs) potentially coding 17 protein ...
González Miguélez, Rubén(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-02-08)
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So far, Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as model organism in many different fields of
study, but seldom used as experimental host in virology studies. The present work seeks to
evaluate the potential of the ...
Pallás Benet, Vicente; HERNANDEZ FORT, CARMEN; Marcos, Jose F.; Daròs, José-Antonio; Ambrós, Silvia; Navarro, Beatriz; NAVARRO BOHIGUES, JOSE ANTONIO; La Peña Del Rivero, Marcos De; Gago-Zachert, Selma; Gas, Maria E.; CARBONELL, ALBERTO; López Del Rincón, Carmelo; Martínez-De Alba, Angel E.; Di Serio, Francesco; Moreno, Pedro(Elsevier, 2022-04-15)
[EN] Ricardo Flores (1947-2020) focused his research on the identification, replication, pathogenesis, and evolution of viroids, the minimal non-protein-coding circular RNAs (250-400 nt) able to replicate and incite diseases ...
Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; Martinez, F.; Ivars, P.; Hernandez Fort, Carmen; De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco.(Springer-Verlag, 2017)
[EN] Tomato is known to be a natural and experimental reservoir host for many plant viruses. In the last few years a new tobamovirus species, Tomato mottle mosaic virus (ToMMV), has been described infecting tomato and ...
[EN] In the 90 ' s, pear blister canker viroid (PBCVd), apple dimple fruit viroid (ADFVd), peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) and chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid (CChMVd) were identified and characterized in the ...
Cervera-Benet, Héctor; Ambros Palaguerri, Silvia; Bernet, Guillermo P.; Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press, 2018-07)
[EN] Determining the fitness of viral genotypes has become a standard practice in virology as it is essential to evaluate their evolutionary potential. Darwinian fitness, defined as the advantage of a given genotype with ...
[EN] Composed of a naked circular non-protein-coding genomic RNA, counting only a few hundred nucleotides, viroids¿the smallest infectious agents known so far¿are able to replicate and move systemically in herbaceous and ...