2010
ROLE OF EVOLVED HOST BREADTH IN THE INITIAL EMERGENCE OF AN RNA VIRUS
Turner PE, Morales NM, Alto BW, Remold SK. ROLE OF EVOLVED HOST BREADTH IN THE INITIAL EMERGENCE OF AN RNA VIRUS. Evolution 2010, 64: 3273-3286. PMID: 20633045, DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01051.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHost breadthNew hostHost growthPathogen emergenceDirect selectionVesicular stomatitis virus populationsType of selectionHost shiftsPhenotypic plasticityNiche breadthSpecialist virusesHost colonizationIndirect selectionDifferent hostsPopulation varianceRNA virusesPathogen infectiousnessGeneralistsVirus populationsHostEnvironmental robustnessFortuitous changesPopulation growthGrowthVirus
2007
EVOLUTION OF HOST SPECIFICITY DRIVES REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AMONG RNA VIRUSES
Duffy S, Burch CL, Turner PE. EVOLUTION OF HOST SPECIFICITY DRIVES REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AMONG RNA VIRUSES. Evolution 2007, 61: 2614-2622. PMID: 17908251, PMCID: PMC7202233, DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00226.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsReproductive isolationEcological speciation hypothesisDivergent natural selectionRNA virusesAssortative mating evolvesNatural selectionHost rangeRNA bacteriophage phi6Speciation hypothesisSingle nucleotide changePhytophagous insectsEcological adaptationNovel hostEvolutionary fateWhole-genome sequencingGenetic exchangeImportant traitsBiological credibilityAlternative hostsExperimental populationsLaboratory populationsAssortative matingDirect selectionGenome sequencingNucleotide changes