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{"title":"Correction to: Optimized SMRT-UMI protocol produces highly accurate sequence datasets from diverse populations-Application to HIV-1 quasispecies.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/ve/veae019.].</p>","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"10 1","pages":"veae038"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11099541/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141066403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals","authors":"Danae Stephens, Zahra Faghihi, Mohammad Moniruzzaman","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae039","url":null,"abstract":": Stony corals (Order Scleractinia) are central to vital marine habitats known as coral reefs. Numerous stressors in the Anthropocene are contributing to the ongoing decline in coral reef health and coverage. While viruses are established modulators of marine microbial dynamics, their interactions within the coral holobiont and impact on coral health and physiology remain unclear. To address this key knowledge gap, we investigated diverse stony coral genomes for ‘endogenous’ viruses. Our study uncovered a remarkable number of integrated viral elements recognized as ‘Polintoviruses’ (Class Polintoviricetes) in 30 Scleractinia genomes; with several species harboring hundreds to thousands of polintoviruses. We reveal massive paralogous expansion of polintoviruses in stony coral genomes, alongside presence of integrated elements closely related to Polinton-like viruses (PLVs), a group of viruses that exist as free virions. These results suggest multiple integrations of polintoviruses and PLV-relatives, along with paralogous expansions, shaped stony coral genomes. Re-analysis of existing gene expression data reveals all polintovirus structural and non-structural hallmark genes are expressed, providing support for free virion production from polintoviruses. Our results, revealing a significant diversity of polintovirus across the Scleractinia order, open a new research avenue into polintovirus and their possible roles in disease, genomic plasticity, and environmental adaptation in this key group of organisms.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Parasite Odyssey: An RNA virus concealed in Toxoplasma gondii","authors":"Purav Gupta, Aiden Hiller, Jawad Chowdhury, Declan Lim, Dillon Yee Lim, Jeroen P J Saeij, Artem Babaian, Felipe Rodriguez, Luke Pereira, Alex Morales","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae040","url":null,"abstract":"We are entering a “Platinum Age of Virus Discovery”, an era marked by exponential growth in the discovery of virus biodiversity, and driven by advances in metagenomics and computational analysis. In the ecosystem of a human (or any animal) there are more species of viruses than simply those directly infecting the animal cells. Viruses can infect all organisms constituting the microbiome, including bacteria, fungi, and unicellular parasites. Thus the complexity of possible interactions between host, microbe, and viruses is unfathomable. To understand this interaction network we must employ computationally-assisted virology as a means of analyzing and interpreting the millions of available samples to make inferences about the ways in which viruses may intersect human health. From a computational viral screen of human neuronal datasets, we identified a novel narnavirus Apocryptovirus odysseus (Ao) which likely infects the neurotropic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Previously, several parasitic protozoan viruses (PPVs) have been mechanistically established as triggers of host innate responses, and here we present in silico evidence that Ao is a plausible pro-inflammatory factor in human and mouse cells infected by T. gondii. T. gondii infects billions of people worldwide, yet the prognosis of toxoplasmosis disease is highly variable, and PPVs like Ao could function as a hitherto undescribed hypervirulence factor. In a broader screen of over 7.6 million samples, we explored phylogenetically-proximal viruses to Ao and discovered 19 Apocryptovirus species, all found in libraries annotated as vertebrate transcriptome or metatranscriptomes. While samples containing this genus of narnaviruses are derived from sheep, goat, bat, rabbit, chicken, and pigeon samples, the presence of virus is strongly predictive of parasitic Apicomplexa nucleic acid co-occurrence, supporting that Apocryptovirus is a genus of parasite-infecting viruses. This is a computational proof-of-concept study in which we rapidly analyze millions of datasets from which we distilled a mechanistically, ecologically, and phylogenetically refined hypothesis. We predict this highly diverged Ao RNA virus is biologically a T. gondii infection, and that Ao, and other viruses like it, will modulate this disease which afflicts billions worldwide.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergence and dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 in New York","authors":"Fabiana Gambaro, Ralf Duerr, Dacia Dimartino, Christian Marier, Eduardo Iturrate, Mark J Mulligan, Adriana Heguy, Simon Dellicour","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae035","url":null,"abstract":"The recombinant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5 variant was first detected in New York City (NYC) and rapidly became the predominant variant in the area by early 2023. The increased occurrence of circulating variants within the SARS-CoV-2 XBB-sublineage prompted the modification of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. This update, implemented in mid-September 2023, involved the incorporation of a monovalent XBB.1.5 component. Considering that NYC probably played a central role in the emergence of the XBB.1.5 variant, we conducted phylogeographic analysis to investigate the emergence and spread of this variant in the metropolitan area. Our analysis confirms that XBB.1.5 emerged within or near the NYC area and indicates that XBB.1.5 had a diffusion velocity similar to that of the variant Alpha in the same study area. Additionally, the analysis of 2,392 genomes collected in the context of the genomic surveillance program at NYU Langone Health system (NYULH) showed that there was no increased proportion of XBB.1.5, relative to all cocirculating variants, in the boosted compared to unvaccinated individuals. This study provides a comprehensive description of the emergence and dissemination of XBB.1.5.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identification of diverse RNA viruses in Obscuromonas flagellates (Euglenozoa: Trypanosomatidae: Blastocrithidiinae)","authors":"Danyil Grybchuk, Arnau Galan, Donnamae Klocek, Diego H Macedo, Yuri I Wolf, Jan Votýpka, Anzhelika Butenko, Julius Lukeš, Uri Neri, Kristína Záhonová, Alexei Yu Kostygov, Eugene V Koonin, Vyacheslav Yurchenko","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae037","url":null,"abstract":"Trypanosomatids (Euglenozoa) are a diverse group of unicellular flagellates predominately infecting insects (monoxenous species) or circulating between insects and vertebrates or plants (dixenous species). Monoxenous trypanosomatids harbor a wide range of RNA viruses belonging to the families Narnaviridae, Totiviridae, and Qinviridae, a putative group of tombus-like viruses. Here, we focus on the subfamily Blastocrithidiinae, a previously unexplored divergent group of monoxenous trypanosomatids comprising two related genera: Obscuromonas and Blastocrithidia. Members of the genus Blastocrithidia employ a unique genetic code, in which all three stop-codons are repurposed to encode amino acids, with TAA also used to terminate translation. Obscuromonas isolates studied here bear viruses of three families: Narnaviridae, Qinviridae, and Mitoviridae. The latter viral group is documented in trypanosomatid flagellates for the first time. While other known mitoviruses replicate in the mitochondria, those of trypanosomatids appear to reside in the cytoplasm. Although no RNA viruses were detected in Blastocrithidia spp. we identified an endogenous viral element in the genome of B. triatomae indicating its past encounter(s) with tombus-like viruses.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long term evolution of human seasonal influenza virus A(H3N2) is associated with an increase in polymerase complex activity.","authors":"René M Vigeveno, Alvin X Han, Robert P de Vries, Edyth Parker, Karen de Haan, Sarah van Leeuwen, Katina D Hulme, Adam S Lauring, Aartjan J W te Velthuis, Geert-Jan Boons, Ron A M Fouchier, Colin A Russell, Menno D de Jong, Dirk Eggink","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae030","url":null,"abstract":"Since the influenza pandemic in 1968, influenza A(H3N2) viruses have become endemic. In this state, H3N2 viruses continuously evolve to overcome immune pressure as a result of prior infection or vaccination, as is evident from the accumulation of mutations in the surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). However, phylogenetic studies have also demonstrated ongoing evolution in the influenza A(H3N2) virus RNA polymerase complex genes. The RNA polymerase complex of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses produces mRNA for viral protein synthesis and replicates the negative sense viral RNA genome (vRNA) through a positive sense complementary RNA intermediate (cRNA). Presently, the consequences and selection pressures driving the evolution of the polymerase complex remain largely unknown. Here we characterize the RNA polymerase complex of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) viruses representative of nearly 50 years of influenza A(H3N2) virus evolution. The H3N2 polymerase complex is a reassortment of human and avian influenza virus genes. We show that since 1968, influenza A(H3N2) viruses have increased the transcriptional activity of the polymerase complex while retaining a close balance between mRNA, vRNA and cRNA levels. Interestingly, the increased polymerase complex activity did not result in increased replicative ability on differentiated human airway epithelial (HAE) cells. We hypothesize that the evolutionary increase in polymerase complex activity of influenza A(H3N2) viruses may compensate for the reduced HA receptor binding and avidity that is the result of the antigenic evolution of influenza A(H3N2) viruses.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing selection on amino acid substitutions in Gag protein between major HIV-1 subtypes","authors":"Galya V Klink, Olga V Kalinina, Georgii A Bazykin","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae036","url":null,"abstract":"Amino acid preferences at a protein site depend on the role of this site in protein function and structure as well as on external constraints. All these factors can change in the course of evolution, making amino acid propensities of a site time-dependent. When viral subtypes divergently evolve in different host subpopulations, such changes may depend on genetic, medical and socio-cultural differences between these subpopulations. Here, using our previously developed phylogenetic approach, we describe 69 amino acid sites of the Gag protein of HIV-1 where amino acids have different impact on viral fitness in six major subtypes of the type M. These changes in preferences trigger adaptive evolution; indeed, 32 (46%) of these sites experienced strong positive selection at least in one of the subtypes. At some of the sites, changes in amino acid preferences may be associated with differences in immune escape between subtypes. The prevalence of different amino acids within a subtype is only a poor predictor for whether it is preferred in this subtype according to the phylogenetic analysis. Therefore, attempts to identify the factors of viral evolution from comparative genomics data should integrate across multiple sources of information.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Within-Host Influenza Viral Diversity in the Pediatric Population as a Function of Age, Vaccine and Health Status","authors":"Ashley Sobel Leonard, Lydia Mendoza, Alexander G McFarland, Andrew Marques, John K Everett, Louise Moncla, Frederic D Bushman, Audrey R Odom John, Scott E Hensley","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae034","url":null,"abstract":"Seasonal influenza virus predominantly evolves through antigenic drift, marked by the accumulation of mutations at antigenic sites. Because of antigenic drift, influenza vaccines are frequently updated, though their efficacy may still be limited due to strain mismatches. Despite the high levels of viral diversity observed across populations, most human studies reveal limited intrahost diversity, leaving the origin of population-level viral diversity unclear. Previous studies show host characteristics, such as immunity, might affect within-host viral evolution. Here we investigate influenza A viral diversity in children aged between 6 months and 18 years. Influenza virus evolution in children is less well characterized than in adults, yet may be associated with higher levels of viral diversity given the lower level of pre-existing immunity and longer durations of infection in children. We obtained influenza isolates from banked influenza A-positive nasopharyngeal swabs collected at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia during the 2017-2018 influenza season. Using next-generation sequencing, we evaluated the population of influenza viruses present in each sample. We characterized within-host viral diversity using the number and frequency of intrahost single nucleotide variants detected in each sample. We related viral diversity to clinical metadata, including subjects’ age, vaccination status, and comorbid conditions, as well as sample metadata such as virus strain and cycle threshold. Consistent with previous studies, most samples contained low levels of diversity with no clear association between the subjects’ age, vaccine status or health status. Further, there was no enrichment of iSNVs near known antigenic sites. Taken together, these findings are consistent with previous observations that the majority of intrahost influenza virus infection is characterized by low viral diversity without evidence of diversifying selection.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genomic and phylogenetic features of the Picobirnaviridae suggest microbial rather than animal hosts","authors":"Sabrina Sadiq, Edward C Holmes, Jackie E Mahar","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae033","url":null,"abstract":"The RNA virus family Picobirnaviridae has traditionally been associated with the gastrointestinal systems of terrestrial mammals and birds, with the majority of viruses detected in animal stool samples. Metatranscriptomic studies of vertebrates, invertebrates, microbial communities, and environmental samples have resulted in an enormous expansion of the genomic and phylogenetic diversity of this family. Yet picobirnaviruses remain poorly classified, with only one genus and three species formally ratified by the International Committee of Virus Taxonomy. Additionally, an inability to culture picobirnaviruses in a laboratory setting or isolate them in animal tissue samples, combined with the presence of bacterial genetic motifs in their genomes, suggests these viruses may represent RNA bacteriophage rather than being associated with animal infection. Utilising a data set of 2,286 picobirnaviruses sourced from mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, microbial communities, and environmental samples, we identified seven consistent phylogenetic clusters likely representing picobirnavirus genera that we tentatively name “Alpha-”, “Beta-”, “Gamma-”, “Delta-”, “Epsilon-”, “Zeta-”, and Etapicobirnavirus”. A statistical analysis of topological congruence between virus-host phylogenies revealed more frequent cross-species transmission than any other RNA virus family. In addition, bacterial ribosomal binding site motifs were more enriched in picobirnavirus genomes than in the two groups of established RNA bacteriophage – the Leviviricetes and Cystoviridae. Overall, our findings support the hypothesis that the Picobirnaviridae have bacterial hosts and provide a lower-level taxonomic classification for this highly diverse and ubiquitous family of RNA viruses.","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to: Contemporary and historical human migration patterns shape hepatitis B virus diversity.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ve/veae029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veae029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/ve/veae009.].</p>","PeriodicalId":56026,"journal":{"name":"Virus Evolution","volume":"10 1","pages":"veae029"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11023002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}