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, ...
Zwart, Mark Peter; Willemsen, Anouk; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP): Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2014-01)
[EN] Viruses have evolved highly streamlined genomes and a variety of mechanisms to compress them, suggesting that genome size is under strong selection. Horizontal gene transfer has, on the other hand, played an important ...
Minicka, J; Rymelska, N; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco; Czerwoniec, A; Hasiów-Jaroszewska, B(Wiley, 2015-05)
In this study the effect of host changes and multiple passages on Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) evolution was analysed. A population of a mild isolate of PepMV was used to generate five independent evolution lineages on three ...
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 ...