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, ...
Cerda García-Caro, Roberto de la(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-03-02)
[ES] Las levaduras son unos de los microrganismos más versátiles, ampliamente
utilizados en diversos procesos biotecnológicos. Esto es debido a sus características
metabólicas, como la producción de etanol y la tolerancia ...
Zwart, Mark Peter; Pijlman, G.P.; Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Duarte, J; Januario, C; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2013-03)
Defective interfering (DI) viruses are thought to cause oscillations in virus levels, known as the 'Von Magnus effect'. Interference by DI viruses has been proposed to underlie these dynamics, although experimental tests ...
Bono Soler, Pablo Luis(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-30)
[ES] La levadura Saccharomyces cerevisiae es uno de los organismos modelos que más se usan en Biotecnología y Biomedicina. De hecho, fue el primer eucariota en ser completamente secuenciado. Gracias al avance en secuenciación ...
Cervera-Benet, Héctor; Lalic, Jasna; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Royal Society, The, 2016-07-17)
[EN] Predicting viral evolution has proven to be a particularly difficult task, mainly owing to our incomplete knowledge of some of the fundamental principles that drive it. Recently, valuable information has been provided ...
Alvarez-Ponce, David; Sabater-Munoz, Beatriz; Toft, Chirstina; Ruíz-González, Mario Javier; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-09)
[EN] The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution is considered the most powerful theory to understand the evolutionary behavior of proteins. One of the main predictions of this theory is that essential proteins should evolve ...
Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Royal Society, The, 2016-08-19)
[EN] In their search to understand the evolution of biological complexity, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary put forward the notion of major evolutionary transitions as those in which elementary units get together to ...
Hillung, Julia; Cuevas Torrijos, Jose Manuel; Valverde, Sergi; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Wiley, 2014-09)
[EN] This study evaluates the extent to which genetic differences among host individuals from the same species condition the evolution of a plant RNA virus. We performed a threefold replicated evolution experiment in which ...
Cervera-Benet, Héctor; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-01)
[EN] A long-standing observation in evolutionary virology is that RNA virus populations are highly polymorphic, composed by a mixture of genotypes whose abundances in the population depend on complex interaction between ...
Willemsen, Anouk; Zwart, Mark Peter; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco.(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2017)
[EN] Background: Theory suggests that high virulence could hinder between-host transmission of microparasites, and that virulence therefore will evolve to lower levels. Alternatively, highly virulent microparasites could ...
Elena Fito, Santiago Fco.(Blackwell Publishing, 2017)
[EN] For multihost pathogens, adaptation to multiple hosts has important implications for
both applied and basic research. At the applied level, it is one of the main factors
determining the probability and severity of ...
Bedhomme, Stephanie; Lafforgue, Guillaume; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-05)
[EN] For multihost pathogens, adaptation to multiple hosts has important implications for both applied and basic research. At the applied level, it is one of the main factors determining the probability and the severity ...
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 ...
Willemsen, Anouk; Zwart, Mark Peter; Higueras, Pablo; Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-09)
One of the striking features of many eukaryotes is the apparent amount of redundancy in coding and non-coding elements of their genomes. Despite the possible evolutionary advantages, there are fewer examples of redundant ...
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 ...
Tromas, Nicolas; Zwart, Mark Peter; Forment Millet, José Javier; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press, 2014)
[EN] Nonretroviral integrated RNA viruses (NIRVs) are genes of nonretroviral RNA viruses found in the genomes of many eukaryotic organisms. NIRVs are thought to sometimes confer virus resistance, meaning that they could ...
Montagud Martínez, Roser(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-04-28)
[ES] La biotecnología moderna se basa en la aplicación de una mezcla de herramientas experimentales y computacionales para llevar a cabo de forma dirigida la ingeniería genética. El objetivo es obtener células (re)programadas ...
Cuevas, Jose M.; Willemsen, A; Hillung, Julia; Zwart, Mark Peter; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-05)
[EN] Populations of plant RNA viruses are highly polymorphic in infected plants, which may allow rapid within-host evolution. To understand tobacco etch potyvirus (TEV) evolution, longitudinal samples from experimentally ...
Aguilar-Rodríguez, Jose; Sabater-Munoz, Beatriz; Montagud-Martinez, Roser; Berlanga, Victor; Alvarez-Ponce, David; Wagner, Andreas; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-09)
[EN] Molecular chaperones, also known as heat-shock proteins, refold misfolded proteins and help other proteins reach their native
conformation. Thanks to these abilities, some chaperones, such as the Hsp90 protein or the ...
Hillung, Julia; García-García, Francisco; DOPAZO, JOAQUÍN; Cuevas Torrijos, Jose Manuel; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-04-26)
[EN] Models of plant-virus interaction assume that the ability of a virus to infect a host genotype depends on the matching between virulence and resistance genes. Recently, we evolved tobacco etch potyvirus (TEV) lineages ...