The Baltimore classification of viruses 50 years later: how does it stand in the light of virus evolution?

EV Koonin, M Krupovic, VI Agol - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Fifty years ago, David Baltimore published a brief conceptual paper delineating
the classification of viruses by the routes of genome expression. The six “Baltimore classes” …

Twenty-five years of structural parvovirology

M Mietzsch, JJ Pénzes, M Agbandje-McKenna - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Parvoviruses, infecting vertebrates and invertebrates, are a family of single-stranded DNA
viruses with small, non-enveloped capsids with T= 1 icosahedral symmetry. A quarter of a …

Viruses of insects reared for food and feed

G Maciel-Vergara, VID Ros - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of insects as food for humans or as feed for animals is an alternative for the
increasing high demand for meat and has various environmental and social advantages …

Susceptibility of North-American and European crickets to Acheta domesticus densovirus (AdDNV) and associated epizootics

J Szelei, J Woodring, MS Goettel, G Duke… - Journal of Invertebrate …, 2011 - Elsevier
The European house cricket, Acheta domesticus L., is highly susceptible to A. domesticus
densovirus (AdDNV). Commercial rearings of crickets in Europe are frequently decimated by …

Advancing pathogen surveillance by nanopore sequencing and genotype characterization of Acheta domesticus densovirus in mass-reared house crickets

FS Lim, J González-Cabrera, J Keilwagen… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Rapid and reliable detection of pathogens is crucial to complement the growing industry of
mass-reared insects, in order to safeguard the insect colonies from outbreak of diseases …

Analysis of cis and trans Requirements for DNA Replication at the Right-End Hairpin of the Human Bocavirus 1 Genome

W Shen, X Deng, W Zou, JF Engelhardt, Z Yan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Parvoviruses are single-stranded DNA viruses that use the palindromic structures at the
ends of the viral genome for their replication. The mechanism of parvovirus replication has …

Viral Proteins Originated De Novo by Overprinting Can Be Identified by Codon Usage: Application to the “Gene Nursery” of Deltaretroviruses

A Pavesi, G Magiorkinis, DG Karlin - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
A well-known mechanism through which new protein-coding genes originate is by
modification of pre-existing genes, eg by duplication or horizontal transfer. In contrast, many …

A parvovirus isolated from royal python (Python regius) is a member of the genus Dependovirus

SL Farkas, Z Zadori, M Benkő… - Journal of general …, 2004 - microbiologyresearch.org
Parvoviruses were isolated from Python regius and Boa constrictor snakes and propagated
in viper heart (VH-2) and iguana heart (IgH-2) cells. The full-length genome of a snake …

Diversity of small, single-stranded DNA viruses of invertebrates and their chaotic evolutionary past

P Tijssen, JJ Pénzes, Q Yu, HT Pham… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2016 - Elsevier
A wide spectrum of invertebrates is susceptible to various single-stranded DNA viruses.
Their relative simplicity of replication and dependence on actively dividing cells makes them …

Recent advances in molecular biology of human bocavirus 1 and its applications

L Shao, W Shen, S Wang, J Qiu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) was discovered in human nasopharyngeal specimens in 2005.
It is an autonomous human parvovirus and causes acute respiratory tract infections in young …