Virus Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Virus Evolution is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution of a novel engineered tripartite viral genome of a torradovirus121
Human immunodeficiency virus dynamics in secondary lymphoid tissues and the evolution of cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape mutants110
Phycova — a tool for exploring covariates of pathogen spread84
Uncovering the genetic diversity within the Aedes notoscriptus virome and isolation of new viruses from this highly urbanised and invasive mosquito82
A single early introduction governed viral diversity in the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Hungary79
Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal74
The evolutionary dynamics and epidemiological history of hepatitis C virus genotype 6, including unique strains from the Li community of Hainan Island, China64
High pathogenic avian influenza A(H5) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4b in Europe—Why trends of virus evolution are more difficult to predict61
Intrahost evolution leading to distinct lineages in the upper and lower respiratory tracts during SARS-CoV-2 prolonged infection54
Genome sizes of animal RNA viruses reflect phylogenetic constraints50
Diversity and transmission of Aleutian mink disease virus in feral and farmed American mink and native mustelids45
Analyses of HIV proteases variants at the threshold of viability reveals relationships between processing efficiency and fitness42
Disentangling the role of poultry farms and wild birds in the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in Europe42
Impact and mitigation of sampling bias to determine viral spread: Evaluating discrete phylogeography through CTMC modeling and structured coalescent model approximations42
Effects of host and pathogenicity on mutation rates in avian influenza A viruses41
Evolutionary rate of SARS-CoV-2 increases during zoonotic infection of farmed mink40
Correction to: Quantifying the value of viral genomics when inferring who infected whom in the 2014–16 Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea38
Emergence and transmission dynamics of the FY.4 Omicron variant in Kenya34
Diverse patterns of intra-host genetic diversity in chronically infected SARS-CoV-2 patients33
Deep mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.86 and epistatic emergence of the KP.3 variant32
Discovery of novel Mamastroviruses in Bactrian camels and dromedaries reveals complex recombination history32
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus incursions of subtype H5N8, H5N5, H5N1, H5N4, and H5N3 in Germany during 2020-2132
Community-level variability in Bronx COVID-19 hospitalizations associated with differing population immunity during the second year of the pandemic31
Deciphering the evolutionary landscape of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus across East Asia31
A systematic review on Nipah virus: global molecular epidemiology and medical countermeasures development31
Evolution of anelloviruses from a circovirus-like ancestor through gradual augmentation of the jelly-roll capsid protein30
Evolution of a globally unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike E484T monoclonal antibody escape mutation in a persistently infected, immunocompromised individual30
An advanced sequence clustering and designation workflow reveals the enzootic maintenance of a dominant West Nile virus subclade in Germany29
Evolution of exploitation and replication of giant viruses and virophages27
Non-structural genes of novel lemur adenoviruses reveal codivergence of virus and host27
Spatial and temporal coevolution of N2 neuraminidase and H1 and H3 hemagglutinin genes of influenza A virus in US swine27
Virome release of an invasive exotic plant species in southern France26
The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk26
Model design for nonparametric phylodynamic inference and applications to pathogen surveillance26
Molecular epidemiology, evolution, and transmission dynamics of raccoon rabies virus in Connecticut25
Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals25
New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria24
Limited genomic reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 transmission history within local epidemiological clusters24
The successive emergence of ERVL-MaLRs in primates24
Characterizing a century of genetic diversity and contemporary antigenic diversity of N1 neuraminidase in influenza A virus from North American swine23
F1ALA: ultrafast and memory-efficient ancestral lineage annotation applied to the huge SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny23
EvoLaps 2: Advanced phylogeographic visualization23
Cryptic transmission and novel introduction of Dengue 1 and 2 genotypes in Colombia23
ANI analysis of poxvirus genomes reveals its potential application to viral species rank demarcation22
A 1.5-Mb continuous endogenous viral region in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis22
Improvements in RNA and DNA nanopore sequencing allow for rapid genetic characterization of avian influenza22
Hantavirus co-circulation in common shrews (Sorex araneus) in Sweden21
Identifying SARS-CoV-2 regional introductions and transmission clusters in real time21
A collection of Trichoderma isolates from natural environments in Sardinia reveals a complex virome that includes negative-sense fungal viruses with unprecedented genome organizations20
Revealing RNA virus diversity and evolution in unicellular algae transcriptomes20
Contrasting dynamics of two incursions of low-pathogenicity avian influenza virus into Australia19
Genomic epidemiology of seasonal influenza circulation in China during prolonged border closure from 2020 to 202119
Evolutionary characterization of the establishment of H6 influenza viruses in domestic geese in China: implications for the position of the host in the ecosystem19
Genomic surveillance and evolution of Getah virus19
Competition for dominance within replicating quasispecies during prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection in an immunocompromised host18
Divergent hepaciviruses, delta-like viruses and a chu-like virus in Australian marsupial carnivores (dasyurids)17
Evolutionary trajectory of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants at the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak17
Known phyla dominate the Tara Oceans RNA virome16
SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunosuppression evolves sub-lineages which independently accumulate neutralization escape mutations16
Discovery of influenza-like virus clades in invertebrates and the evolutionary history and host-shifting events of Orthomyxoviridae in metazoans16
Meta-transcriptomics reveals potential virus transfer between Aedes communis mosquitoes and their parasitic water mites16
Accommodating sampling location uncertainty in continuous phylogeography16
Modeling cellular co-infection and reassortment of bluetongue virus in Culicoides midges15
A biophysical model of viral escape from polyclonal antibodies15
Prospects for a sequence-based taxonomy of influenza A virus subtypes15
Identification of a putative new virus from the Jingmenvirus group in ticks from wild animals in Brazil15
Influenza A genomic diversity during human infections underscores the strength of genetic drift and the existence of tight transmission bottlenecks15
High genetic stability of co-circulating human adenovirus type 31 lineages over 59 years14
Long-term co-circulation of multiple arboviruses in southeast Australia revealed by xeno-monitoring and viral whole-genome sequencing14
A time-series meta-transcriptomic analysis reveals the seasonal, host, and gender structure of mosquito viromes14
Avian H7N9 influenza viruses are evolutionarily constrained by stochastic processes during replication and transmission in mammals14
A parasite odyssey: An RNA virus concealed in Toxoplasma gondii14
Genetic insights of H9N2 avian influenza viruses circulating in Mali and phylogeographic patterns in Northern and Western Africa14
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Mutations & Variants Through the COG-UK-Mutation Explorer14
Mathematical comparison of protocols for adapting a bacteriophage to a new host13
Quantifying rates of HIV-1 flow between risk groups and geographic locations in Kenya: A country-wide phylogenetic study13
Emergence and pandemic spread of small ruminant lentiviruses13
Immune Pressure is Key to Understanding Observed Patterns of Respiratory Virus Evolution in Prolonged Infections13
From vaccine to pathogen: Modeling Sabin 2 vaccine virus reversion and evolutionary epidemiology in Matlab, Bangladesh13
Unravelling dengue serotype 3 transmission in Brazil: evidence for multiple introductions of the 3III_B.3.2 lineage13
Silent codon positions in the A-rich HIV RNA genome that do not easily become A: Restrictions imposed by the RNA sequence and structure13
Changing selection on amino acid substitutions in Gag protein between major HIV-1 subtypes13
Phylogeographic analysis of Tula hantavirus highlights a single introduction to central Europe13
Natural selection differences detected in key protein domains between non-pathogenic and pathogenic feline coronavirus phenotypes12
Emergence and dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 in New York12
Epidemiological inference from pathogen genomes: A review of phylodynamic models and applications12
Parallel evolution and enhanced virulence upon in vivo passage of an RNA virus in Drosophila melanogaster12
Evolution of transient RNA structure–RNA polymerase interactions in respiratory RNA virus genomes12
Correction to: Optimized SMRT-UMI protocol produces highly accurate sequence datasets from diverse populations—Application to HIV-1 quasispecies12
Evolution of ACE2-independent SARS-CoV-2 infection and mouse adaption after passage in cells expressing human and mouse ACE212
Dating reservoir formation in virologically suppressed people living with HIV-1 in Rakai, Uganda12
Evolutionary and temporal dynamics of emerging influenza D virus in Europe (2009–22)12
Comparative analysis of multiple consensus genomes of the same strain of Marek’s disease virus reveals intrastrain variation12
Natural variation in neuraminidase activity influences the evolutionary potential of the seasonal H1N1 lineage hemagglutinin12
Experimental evidence of vaccine-driven evolution of PRRSV-212
Mamastrovirus species are shaped by recombination and can be reliably distinguished in ORF1b genome region12
Identifying high-confidence variants in human cytomegalovirus genomes sequenced from clinical samples11
Identification of coronaviruses in farmed wild animals reveals their evolutionary origins in Guangdong, southern China11
Heptad stereotypy, S/Q layering, and remote origin of the SARS-CoV-2 fusion core11
Genomic variants and molecular epidemiological characteristics of dengue virus in China revealed by genome-wide analysis11
Recombination smooths the time signal disrupted by latency in within-host HIV phylogenies11
Variation within major internal repeats of KSHV in vivo11
The virome of the panglobal, wide host-range plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi: phylogeography and evolutionary insights11
The classification, origin, and evolutionary dynamics of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus circulating in East Asia11
Inferring strain-level mutational drivers of phage-bacteria interaction phenotypes arising during coevolutionary dynamics11
The impact of global lineage dynamics, border restrictions, and emergence of the B.1.1.7 lineage on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Norway10
Discovery of additional genomic segments reveals the fluidity of jingmenvirus genomic organization10
Genetic consequences of effective and suboptimal dosing with mutagenic drugs in a hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection10
Lytic/Lysogenic Transition as a Life-History Switch10
Twenty years of evolution and diversification of digitaria streak virus in Digitaria setigera10
A critique of the use of species and below-species taxonomic terms for viruses—time for change?10
A new genus of alphasatellites associated with banana bunchy top virus in Southeast Asia10
Global spatiotemporal transmission patterns of human enterovirus 71 from 1963 to 201910
Evolution and diversity of inherited viruses in the Nearctic phantom midge, Chaoborus americanus10
Genomic surveillance and evolutionary dynamics of type 2 porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in China spanning the African swine fever outbreak10
The early SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Senegal was driven by the local emergence of B.1.416 and the introduction of B.1.1.420 from Europe10
Discovery and genome characterization of six new orthoparamyxoviruses in small Belgian mammals10
Heat adaptation of phage T7 under an extended genetic code10
The emergence of NY10: insights into the 2012 West Nile Virus outbreak in the United States10
Sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes from saliva9
Within-host influenza viral diversity in the pediatric population as a function of age, vaccine, and health status9
Analysis of the genetic diversity in RNA-directed RNA polymerase sequences: implications for an automated RNA virus classification system9
H9N2 avian influenza virus dispersal along Bangladeshi poultry trading networks9
Quantifying the value of viral genomics when inferring who infected whom in the 2014–16 Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea9
bayroot: Bayesian sampling of HIV-1 integration dates by root-to-tip regression9
Long-read transcriptomics of Ostreid herpesvirus 1 uncovers a conserved expression strategy for the capsid maturation module and pinpoints a mechanism for evasion of the ADAR-based antiviral defence9
Independent epidemic patterns of HIV-1 CRF01_AE lineages driven by mobile population in Shenzhen, an immigrant city of China9
Influenza A virus within-host evolution and positive selection in a densely sampled household cohort over three seasons9
Selection of viral variants with enhanced transmission and reduced neutralization susceptibility alongside lateral introductions may explain the persistence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syn9
Co-infection of mammarenaviruses in a wild mouse, Tanzania9
Molecular epidemiology of Porcine Parvovirus Type 1 (PPV1) and the reactivity of vaccine-induced antisera against historical and current PPV1 strains9
The evolution of the HIV-1 protease folding stability9
Correction to: The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK9
Identification of a novel mycovirus belonging to the “flexivirus”-related family with icosahedral virion9
Monotreme-specific conserved putative proteins derived from retroviral reverse transcriptase9
Genomic analysis of human noroviruses using combined Illumina–Nanopore data8
Haplotype assignment of longitudinal viral deep sequencing data using covariation of variant frequencies8
Genomic epidemiology reveals the variation and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2 in a single-source community outbreak8
Polerovirus genomic variation8
Evolutionary dynamics and molecular epidemiology of H1N1 pandemic 2009 influenza A viruses across swine farms in Denmark8
Purifying selection decreases the potential for Bangui orthobunyavirus outbreaks in humans8
Equine herpesvirus 4 infected domestic horses associated with Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots around 4,000 years ago8
Comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Spike evolution: epitope classification and immune escape prediction8
Evolutionary dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in Buenos Aires: Viral diversity, migration, and subgroup replacement8
Virome analysis of New Zealand’s bats reveals cross-species viral transmission among the Coronaviridae7
Recently reported SARS-CoV-2 genomes suggested to be intermediate between the two early main lineages are instead likely derived7
A virus associated with the zoonotic pathogen Plasmodium knowlesi causing human malaria is a member of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon7
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments7
Correction to: Increase of niche filling with increase of host richness for plant-infecting mastreviruses7
Within- and between-host evolutionary effects on viral oncogenicity7
A phylogenetic study of dengue virus in urban Vietnam shows long-term persistence of endemic strains7
Phylogenetic insights into the early spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant across Europe7
Formal recognition and classification of gene transfer agents as viriforms7
Evolutionary traits of Tick-borne encephalitis virus: Pervasive non-coding RNA structure conservation and molecular epidemiology7
Improved detection of low-frequency within-host variants from deep sequencing: A case study with human papillomavirus7
Fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 proteins7
On the importance of assessing topological convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference7
Evolution of influenza A virus in intensive and free-range swine farms in Spain7
Evolutionary analyses of emerging GII.2[P16] and GII.4 Sydney [P16] noroviruses6
GALV-KoRV-related retroviruses in diverse Australian and African rodent species6
Origin, spread, and interspecies transmission of a dominant genotype of BJ/94 lineage H9N2 avian influenza viruses with increased threat6
The untapped potential of phage model systems as therapeutic agents6
Emergence of Omicron FN.1 a descendent of BQ.1.1 in Botswana6
Narrow transmission bottlenecks and limited within-host viral diversity during a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak on a fishing boat6
Corrigendum to: Genomic epidemiology reveals the reduction of the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 after implementing control strategies in Republic of Korea, 20206
Viral community composition of hypersaline lakes6
A tale of caution: How endogenous viral elements affect virus discovery in transcriptomic data6
Unrecognized introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into the US state of Georgia shaped the early epidemic6
Unraveling gene content variation across eukaryotic giant viruses based on network analyses and host associations6
Transmission dynamics of low pathogenicity avian influenza (H2N2) viruses in live bird markets of the Northeast United States of America, 2013–20196
Automated detection and classification of polioviruses from nanopore sequencing reads using piranha6
Molecular epidemiological features of SARS-CoV-2 in Japan, 2020–16
Modeling the therapeutic potential of defective interfering particles in the presence of immunity6
The tissue virome of black-spotted frogs reveals a diversity of uncharacterized viruses6
HCV E1 influences the fitness landscape of E2 and may enhance escape from E2-specific antibodies6
Tick virome diversity in Hubei Province, China, and the influence of host ecology6
Genomic epidemiology of the rotavirus G2P[4] strains in coastal Kenya pre- and post-rotavirus vaccine introduction, 2012–86
Conserved recombination patterns across coronavirus subgenera6
Viromes of Antarctic fish resemble the diversity found at lower latitudes6
Evolution of virulence in emerging epidemics: from theory to experimental evolution and back6
Reversions to consensus are positively selected in HIV-1 and bias substitution rate estimates6
High HIV diversity, recombination, and superinfection revealed in a large outbreak among persons who inject drugs in Kentucky and Ohio, USA6
Genomic and phylogenetic features of the Picobirnaviridae suggest microbial rather than animal hosts6
Tracing the adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during vaccine roll-out in Norway5
SPREAD 4: online visualisation of pathogen phylogeographic reconstructions5
The virome of the invasive Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus in Europe5
Discovering recent selection forces shaping the evolution of dengue viruses based on polymorphism data across geographic scales5
Reassortments in single-stranded DNA multipartite viruses: Confronting expectations based on molecular constraints with field observations5
Viral origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases5
Phylodynamic analysis and spike protein mutations in porcine deltacoronavirus with a new variant introduction in Taiwan5
Mutation rate, selection, and epistasis inferred from RNA virus haplotypes via neural posterior estimation5
Correction to: Coevolutionary phage training and Joint application delays the emergence of phage resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa5
Correction to: Human cytomegalovirus strain diversity and dynamics reveal the donor lung as a major contributor after transplantation5
Cell type-specific adaptation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike5
Integrated viral elements suggest the dual lifestyle of Tetraselmis spp. Polinton-like viruses5
Bacteriophage Φ21’s receptor-binding protein evolves new functions through destabilizing mutations that generate non-genetic phenotypic heterogeneity5
Spatial scale influences the distribution of viral diversity in the eukaryotic virome of the mosquito Culex pipiens5
Evolutionary changes in the number of dissociable amino acids on spike proteins and nucleoproteins of SARS-CoV-2 variants5
Long-read sequencing reveals the evolutionary drivers of intra-host diversity across natural RNA mycovirus infections5
New clades of viruses infecting the obligatory biotroph Bremia lactucae representing distinct evolutionary trajectory for viruses infecting oomycetes5
A threat from both sides: Multiple introductions of genetically distinct H5 HPAI viruses into Canada via both East Asia-Australasia/Pacific and Atlantic flyways5
Widespread interspecific phylogenetic tree incongruence between mosquito-borne and insect-specific flaviviruses at hotspots originally identified in Zika virus5
Exploring a prolonged enterovirus C104 infection in a severely ill patient using nanopore sequencing5
Long-term evolution of human seasonal influenza virus A(H3N2) is associated with an increase in polymerase complex activity5
Dimensionality reduction distills complex evolutionary relationships in seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-25
Expanding the RNA virome of nematodes and other soil-inhabiting organisms4
Lineage BA.2 dominated the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic wave in the Philippines4
Coronaviruses in wild animals sampled in and around Wuhan at the beginning of COVID-19 emergence4
Fast-forwarding evolution—Accelerated adaptation in a proofreading-deficient hypermutator herpesvirus4
Correction to: Natural variation in neuraminidase activity influences the evolutionary potential of the seasonal H1N1 lineage hemagglutinin4
Cameroonian blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) harbour a plethora of RNA viruses4
Unraveling the genomic landscape of piscine myocarditis virus: mutation frequencies, viral diversity and evolutionary dynamics in Atlantic salmon4
Global estimates of the fitness advantage of SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron4
Reconstructing relative transmission rates in Bayesian phylodynamics: Two-fold transmission advantage of Omicron in Berlin, Germany during December 20214
Comparative evolutionary analyses of peste des petits ruminants virus genetic lineages4
Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 from Singapore 2020 outbreak revealed an Australian recombinant variant4
Importance of quantifying the number of viral reads in metagenomic sequencing of environmental samples from the Huanan Seafood Market4
Correction to: Tracking the emergence of antigenic variants in influenza A virus epidemics in Brazil4
Comparative analysis of genome-encoded viral sequences reveals the evolutionary history of flavivirids (family Flaviviridae)4
Evolution of Zika virus in Rag1-deficient mice selects for unique envelope glycosylation motif mutants that show enhanced replication fitness4
Molecular phylogeny of human adenovirus type 41 lineages4
Evolution of the Cytomegalovirus RL11 gene family in Old World monkeys and Great Apes4
Synergetic association between coxsackievirus A16 genotype evolution and recombinant form shifts4
Diverse viral pathogens in Australian canines: limited geographic structure and the first detection of an RNA virus in dingoes4
Contemporary and historical human migration patterns shape hepatitis B virus diversity4
Strong selection and high mutation supply characterize experimentalChlorovirusevolution4
Within-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2: how often are de novo mutations transmitted from symptomatic infections?4
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