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 ...
González, Rubén; Butkovic, Anamarija; ELENA FITO, SANTIAGO FCO(Academic Press, 2020)
[EN] Phenotypic plasticity enables organisms to survive in the face of unpredictable environmental stress. Intimately related to the notion of phenotypic plasticity is the concept of the reaction norm that places phenotypic ...
González, Rubén; Butkovic, Anamarija; Escaray, Francisco J.; Martínez-Latorre, Javier; Melero, Izan; Pérez-Parets, Enric; Gómez-Cadenas, Aurelio; Carrasco, Pedro; Elena, Santiago F.(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021-02-09)
[EN] Environmental conditions are an important factor driving pathogens' evolution. Here, we explore the effects of drought stress in plant virus evolution. We evolved turnip mosaic potyvirus in well-watered and drought ...
Martí, Mari Carmen; Merwaiss, Fernando; Butkovic, Anamarija; Daròs, José-Antonio(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-03-31)
[EN] Viral nanoparticles (VNPs) have recently attracted attention for their use as building blocks for novel materials to support a range of functions of potential interest in nanotechnology and medicine. Viral capsids are ...
González, Rubén; Butkovic, Anamarija; ELENA FITO, SANTIAGO FCO(Oxford University Press, 2019-07)
[EN] Predicting viral emergence is difficult due to the stochastic nature of the underlying processes and the many factors that govern pathogen evolution. Environmental factors affecting the host, the pathogen and the ...