Endogenous viruses: insights into viral evolution and impact on host biology

C Feschotte, C Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Recent studies have uncovered myriad viral sequences that are integrated
or'endogenized'in the genomes of various eukaryotes. Surprisingly, it appears that not just …

Filoviruses in bats: current knowledge and future directions

KJ Olival, DTS Hayman - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, pose significant threats to public health
and species conservation by causing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high mortality rates …

Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations

D Jebb, Z Huang, M Pippel, GM Hughes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Bats possess extraordinary adaptations, including flight, echolocation, extreme longevity
and unique immunity. High-quality genomes are crucial for understanding the molecular …

Bat biology, genomes, and the Bat1K project: to generate chromosome-level genomes for all living bat species

EC Teeling, SC Vernes, LM Dávalos… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Bats are unique among mammals, possessing some of the rarest mammalian adaptations,
including true self-powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, unique …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous viruses: Connecting recent and ancient viral evolution

P Aiewsakun, A Katzourakis - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
The rapid rates of viral evolution allow us to reconstruct the recent history of viruses in great
detail. This feature, however, also results in rapid erosion of evolutionary signal within viral …

Molecular evolution of viruses of the family Filoviridae based on 97 whole-genome sequences

SA Carroll, JS Towner, TK Sealy, LK McMullan… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.asm.org
Viruses in the Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus genera (family Filoviridae) have been
associated with large outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in human and nonhuman primates …

Paleovirology and virally derived immunity

A Aswad, A Katzourakis - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
Paleovirology, the study of viruses on evolutionary timescales, can exploit information from
endogenous viral elements (EVEs), which are the result of heritable horizontal gene transfer …

Filovirus receptor NPC1 contributes to species-specific patterns of ebolavirus susceptibility in bats

M Ng, E Ndungo, ME Kaczmarek, AS Herbert, T Binger… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Biological factors that influence the host range and spillover of Ebola virus (EBOV) and other
filoviruses remain enigmatic. While filoviruses infect diverse mammalian cell lines, we report …

Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses

BA Han, JP Schmidt, LW Alexander… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Ebola and other filoviruses pose significant public health and conservation threats by
causing high mortality in primates, including humans. Preventing future outbreaks of …

Filoviruses: ecology, molecular biology, and evolution

J Emanuel, A Marzi, H Feldmann - Advances in virus research, 2018 - Elsevier
The Filoviridae are a family of negative-strand RNA viruses that include several important
human pathogens. Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus are well-known filoviruses which …