Replication mechanisms of circular ssDNA plant viruses and their potential implication in viral gene expression regulation

M Bonnamy, S Blanc, Y Michalakis - mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The replication of members of the two circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) virus families
Geminiviridae and Nanoviridae, the only ssDNA viruses infecting plants, is believed to be …

Open questions in the social lives of viruses

A Leeks, LM Bono, EA Ampolini… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Social interactions among viruses occur whenever multiple viral genomes infect the same
cells, hosts, or populations of hosts. Viral social interactions range from cooperation to …

The genome of a bunyavirus cannot be defined at the level of the viral particle but only at the scale of the viral population

M Yvon, TL German, DE Ullman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Bunyaviruses are enveloped negative or ambisense single-stranded RNA viruses with a
genome divided into several segments. The canonical view depicts each viral particle …

Cheating leads to the evolution of multipartite viruses

A Leeks, PG Young, PE Turner, G Wild, SA West - PLoS biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In multipartite viruses, the genome is split into multiple segments, each of which is
transmitted via a separate capsid. The existence of multipartite viruses poses a problem …

Genome segment ratios change during whitefly transmission of two bipartite cassava mosaic begomoviruses

GG Kennedy, W Sharpee, AL Jacobson… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cassava mosaic disease is caused by a complex of whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses,
which often occur in co-infections. These viruses have bipartite genomes consisting of DNA …

Mixed viral infection constrains the genome formula of multipartite cucumber mosaic virus

D Boezen, M Vermeulen, ML Johnson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Many plant viruses have a multipartite organization, with multiple genome segments
packaged into separate virus particles. The genome formula describes the relative …

Aspects of the lifestyle of multipartite viruses apply to monopartite segmented and perhaps nonsegmented viruses

Y Michalakis, S Blanc - npj Viruses, 2024 - nature.com
Recent research on faba bean necrotic stunt virus, aiming to understand how multipartite
viruses function and potentially their existence, revealed three surprising features: a non …

The genome formula of a multipartite virus is regulated both at the individual segment and the segment group levels

M Bonnamy, A Brousse, E Pirolles, Y Michalakis… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Differential accumulation of the distinct genome segments is a common feature of viruses
with segmented genomes. The reproducible and specific pattern of genome segment …

Comprehensive Analysis of Copy Number Variations on Glycoside Hydrolase 45 Genes among Different Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Strains

X Ding, R Zhao, Y Dai, Y Zhang, S Lin, J Ye - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is considered the most dangerous quarantine pest in China. It
causes enormous economic and ecological losses in many countries from Asia and Europe …

Conserved untranslated regions of multipartite viruses: Natural markers of novel viral genomic components and tags of viral evolution

S Zhang, C Yang, Y Qiu, R Liao, Z Xuan, F Ren… - Virus …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Viruses with split genomes are classified as being either segmented or multipartite based on
whether their genomic segments occur within a single virion or across different virions …