Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy

P Simmonds, EM Adriaenssens, FM Zerbini… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A universal taxonomy of viruses is essential for a comprehensive view of the virus world and
for communicating the complicated evolutionary relationships among viruses. However …

Viruses defined by the position of the virosphere within the replicator space

EV Koonin, VV Dolja, M Krupovic… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Originally, viruses were defined as miniscule infectious agents that passed through filters
that retain even the smallest cells. Subsequently, viruses were considered obligate …

A place for viruses on the tree of life

HMB Harris, C Hill - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Viruses are ubiquitous. They infect almost every species and are probably the most
abundant biological entities on the planet, yet they are excluded from the Tree of Life (ToL) …

[HTML][HTML] An update on eukaryotic viruses revived from ancient permafrost

JM Alempic, A Lartigue, AE Goncharov, G Grosse… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
One quarter of the Northern hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred
to as permafrost. Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic potentials of CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology in human viral infections

S Najafi, SC Tan, S Aghamiri, P Raee… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Viral infections are a common cause of morbidity worldwide. The emergence of Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to more attention to viral infections and finding novel …

[HTML][HTML] Jumbo phages: a comparative genomic overview of core functions and adaptions for biological conflicts

L M. Iyer, V Anantharaman, A Krishnan, AM Burroughs… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Jumbo phages have attracted much attention by virtue of their extraordinary genome size
and unusual aspects of biology. By performing a comparative genomics analysis of 224 …

Virus taxonomy and the role of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

SG Siddell, DB Smith… - Journal of General …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
The taxonomy of viruses is developed and overseen by the International Committee on
Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which scrutinizes, approves and ratifies taxonomic proposals …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral and virucidal properties of essential oils and isolated compounds–a scientific approach

J Reichling - Planta medica, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Essential oils and isolated essential oil compounds are known to exert various
pharmacological effects, such as antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti …

Viral histones: pickpocket's prize or primordial progenitor?

PB Talbert, KJ Armache, S Henikoff - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2022 - Springer
The common histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 are the characteristic components of
eukaryotic nucleosomes, which function to wrap DNA and compact the genome as well as to …

On the evolutionary history of the twenty encoded amino acids

A Kirschning - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract α‐Amino acids are essential molecular constituents of life, twenty of which are
privileged because they are encoded by the ribosomal machinery. The question remains …