2016
Generalized selection to overcome innate immunity selects for host breadth in an RNA virus
Wasik BR, Muñoz‐Rojas A, Okamoto KW, Miller‐Jensen K, Turner PE. Generalized selection to overcome innate immunity selects for host breadth in an RNA virus. Evolution 2016, 70: 270-281. PMID: 26882316, DOI: 10.1111/evo.12845.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVesicular stomatitis virus populationsInnate immunityRNA virusesHost cell levelVirus-host coevolutionDifferent species originViral fitnessCompetent cellsVSV populationsHost breadthHuman cancer cellsEvolutionary historyFitness differencesHost speciesDisparate hostsSpecies originInfection successInnate immune capacityPrimate cellsInnate immune functionVirus populationsImmune deficient cellsEmergence potentialImmune competent cellsNonhuman primate cells
2006
Viral ecology and the maintenance of novel host use.
Dennehy JJ, Friedenberg NA, Holt RD, Turner PE. Viral ecology and the maintenance of novel host use. The American Naturalist 2006, 167: 429-39. PMID: 16673350, DOI: 10.1086/499381.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNovel hostHost useNative hostNovel host useNew host speciesHost population growthPhage growth rateGenetic adaptationViral ecologyHost speciesSerial passage experimentsPopulation dynamicsHost bacteriaRNA phagesVirus extinctionHost transmissionViral populationsVirus populationsHostPassage experimentsSpeciesGrowth ratePopulation growthAdaptationEcology