2013
STOCHASTIC TEMPERATURES IMPEDE RNA VIRUS ADAPTATION
Alto BW, Wasik BR, Morales NM, Turner PE. STOCHASTIC TEMPERATURES IMPEDE RNA VIRUS ADAPTATION. Evolution 2013, 67: 969-979. PMID: 23550749, DOI: 10.1111/evo.12034.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFitness gainsVesicular stomatitis virusEvolution of generalistsConvergent molecular evolutionEvolution of specializationCell-binding proteinsMolecular evolutionGenome substitutionsConstant environmentVirus adaptationSequence analysisRNA virusesG geneVirus populationsStomatitis virusMolecular changesLineagesGeneralistsTemperature treatmentKey roleEvolutionGenesLociVirusProtein
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