Mycovirus diversity and evolution revealed/inferred from recent studies

H Kondo, L Botella, N Suzuki - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput virome analyses with various fungi, from cultured or uncultured sources,
have led to the discovery of diverse viruses with unique genome structures and even neo …

NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools

CL Schoch, S Ciufo, M Domrachev, CL Hotton… - Database, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy includes
organism names and classifications for every sequence in the nucleotide and protein …

RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management

MS Robeson, DR O'Rourke, BD Kaehler… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

A Rambaut, EC Holmes, Á O'Toole, V Hill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing pandemic spread of a new human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which is
associated with severe pneumonia/disease (COVID-19), has resulted in the generation of …

Antiviral surfaces and coatings and their mechanisms of action

PD Rakowska, M Tiddia, N Faruqui, C Bankier… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

JH Kuhn, S Adkins, D Alioto, SV Alkhovsky… - Archives of …, 2020 - Springer
In March 2020, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and …

The role of autophagy in viral infections

T Chen, S Tu, L Ding, M **, H Chen, H Zhou - Journal of biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic cellular process that exerts antiviral
functions during a viral invasion. However, co-evolution and co-adaptation between viruses …

The new scope of virus taxonomy: partitioning the virosphere into 15 hierarchical ranks

Nature Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Virus taxonomy emerged as a discipline in the middle of the twentieth century. Traditionally,
classification by virus taxonomists has been focussed on the grou** of relatively closely …

MUSCLE v5 enables improved estimates of phylogenetic tree confidence by ensemble bootstrap**

RC Edgar - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Phylogenetic tree confidence is often estimated from a multiple sequence alignment (MSA)
using the Felsenstein bootstrap heuristic. However, this does not account for systematic …

Pango lineage designation and assignment using SARS-CoV-2 spike gene nucleotide sequences

Á O'Toole, OG Pybus, ME Abram, EJ Kelly, A Rambaut - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background More than 2 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences have been generated
and shared since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and constitute a vital information …