2012
Selective Pressure Causes an RNA Virus to Trade Reproductive Fitness for Increased Structural and Thermal Stability of a Viral Enzyme
Dessau M, Goldhill D, McBride R, Turner PE, Modis Y. Selective Pressure Causes an RNA Virus to Trade Reproductive Fitness for Increased Structural and Thermal Stability of a Viral Enzyme. PLOS Genetics 2012, 8: e1003102. PMID: 23209446, PMCID: PMC3510033, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003102.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFitness tradeoffsPleiotropic mutationMolecular basisRNA virusesSingle amino acid substitutionAmino acid substitutionsIndividual point mutationsEvolutionary tugPleiotropic phenotypesExperimental evolutionAntagonistic pleiotropyEvolutionary biologyProtein functionLytic transglycosylaseNatural selectionProtein P5Reproductive fitnessStructural biologySelective pressureMutational substitutionsHeat shockProtein structureCapsid assemblyAcid substitutionsBacteriophage Φ6
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
2005
Evolution of Mutational Robustness in an RNA Virus
Montville R, Froissart R, Remold SK, Tenaillon O, Turner PE. Evolution of Mutational Robustness in an RNA Virus. PLOS Biology 2005, 3: e381. PMID: 16248678, PMCID: PMC1275523, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030381.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMutational robustnessRNA virusesAccurate genome replicationEvolution of robustnessUnderstanding of evolutionAdaptive evolutionGenetic robustnessPopulation bottleneckingPhenotypic constancyMutation accumulationNatural selectionGenetic variationMutational effectsGenome replicationHigh mutation frequencyMutational changesRandom mutationsMutation rateHost cellsBiological populationsFitness changesMutation frequencyGenomeComplementationVirus