Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity: Something new for something known about Chagas disease manifestations, serodiagnosis and drug sensitivity

B Zingales - Acta tropica, 2018 - Elsevier
The genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan agent of Chagas disease, is
widely recognized. At present, T. cruzi is partitioned into seven discrete typing units (DTUs) …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: a valuable paradigm for phylogenomics

SV Edwards, Z Xi, A Janke, BC Faircloth… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent articles published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mark Springer and
John Gatesy (S&G) present numerous criticisms of recent implementations and testing of the …

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants

T Tamura, J Ito, K Uriu, J Zahradnik, I Kida… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In late 2022, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants have become highly diversified,
and XBB is spreading rapidly around the world. Our phylogenetic analyses suggested that …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the natural origins of SARS-CoV-2 in the light of recombination

S Lytras, J Hughes, D Martin… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The lack of an identifiable intermediate host species for the proximal animal ancestor of
SARS-CoV-2, and the large geographical distance between Wuhan and where the closest …

Molecular Evolution of Zika Virus during Its Emergence in the 20th Century

O Faye, CCM Freire, A Iamarino, O Faye… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus first isolated in Uganda in 1947. Although
entomological and virologic surveillance have reported ZIKV enzootic activity in diverse …

RDP3: a flexible and fast computer program for analyzing recombination

DP Martin, P Lemey, M Lott, V Moulton, D Posada… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
RDP3 is a new version of the RDP program for characterizing recombination events in DNA-
sequence alignments. Among other novelties, this version includes four new recombination …

Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age

B Mühlemann, L Vinner, A Margaryan, H Wilhelmson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Variola virus (VARV), the causative agent of smallpox, is estimated to have
killed between 300 million and 500 million people in the 20​ th century and was …

Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period

B Mühlemann, TC Jones, PB Damgaard, ME Allentoft… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of human hepatitis. There is considerable
uncertainty about the timescale of its evolution and its association with humans. Here we …

An exact nonparametric method for inferring mosaic structure in sequence triplets

MF Boni, D Posada, MW Feldman - Genetics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Statistical tests for detecting mosaic structure or recombination among nucleotide
sequences usually rely on identifying a pattern or a signal that would be unlikely to appear …

Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes

M Parks, R Cronn, A Liston - BMC biology, 2009 - Springer
Background Molecular evolutionary studies share the common goal of elucidating historical
relationships, and the common challenge of adequately sampling taxa and characters …