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Evolution of avian infectious bronchitis virus: Genetic drift and recombination

  • Lee, Chang-Won
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2002
  • Infectious bronchitis(IB) is a viral disease in which continued evolution of the virus is of paramount importance for annual endemics and epidemics in chickens. Since the isolation of IB viruses(IBVs) in the 1930s, over 50 serotypes or variants have been reported worldwide. Continuing evolution is most prominent in the suface glycoproteins of IBV but also occurs in other parts of the genome. This genetic variability results from accumulation of molecular changes that can occur by a number of different mechanisms including genetic drift (point mutations) and genetic shift(RNA recombination). GA98 is a new serotype of IBV identified recently in the United States. In this paper, the evolutionary trend of IBV will be discussed using GA98 serotype as a model.

Health monitoring sensor placement optimization for Canton Tower using virus monkey algorithm

  • Yi, Ting-Hua;Li, Hong-Nan;Zhang, Xu-Dong
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1373-1392
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    • 2015
  • Placing sensors at appropriate locations is an important task in the design of an efficient structural health monitoring (SHM) system for a large-scale civil structure. In this paper, a hybrid optimization algorithm called virus monkey algorithm (VMA) based on the virus theory of evolution is proposed to seek the optimal placement of sensors. Firstly, the dual-structure coding method is adopted instead of binary coding method to code the solution. Then, the VMA is designed to incorporate two populations, a monkey population and a virus population, enabling the horizontal propagation between the monkey and virus individuals and the vertical inheritance of monkey's position information from the previous to following position. Correspondingly, the monkey population in this paper is divided into the superior and inferior monkey populations, and the virus population is divided into the serious and slight virus populations. The serious virus is used to infect the inferior monkey to make it escape from the local optima, while the slight virus is adopted to infect the superior monkey to let it find a better result in the nearby area. This kind of novel virus infection operator enables the coevolution of monkey and virus populations. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed VMA is demonstrated by designing the sensor network of the Canton Tower, the tallest TV Tower in China. Results show that innovations in the VMA proposed in this paper can improve the convergence of algorithm compared with the original monkey algorithm (MA).

Effects of Recombination on the Pathogenicity and Evolution of Pepper mottle virus

  • Jonson, Miranda Gilda;Seo, Jang-Kyun;Cho, Hong-Soo;Kim, Jeong-Soo;Kim, Kook-Hyung
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.417-421
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    • 2009
  • The analysis of the full length genome of Korean isolates of Pepper mottle virus (PepMoV) in previous study showed molecular variations and are found to be related to symptom variation and pathogenicity (Kim et al., 2009, Virus Res. 144:83-88). To fully understand the molecular variation of PepMoV in Korea, we further assessed the role of RNA recombination to biological variation and evolution of PepMoV. Full-length genome of a total of 17 Korean-PepMoV and 2 American (CA and FL) isolates were examined for possible detection of genetic recombination using different recombination detections programs and detected 5 and 8 tentative recombination events using RDP3 and Splits Tree4 programs, respectively. Interestingly, tentative recombinants detected such as isolates 57, 134 and 217 were previously identified as severe isolates and 205135 and 205136 as differentiating isolates (Kim et al., 2009, Virus Res. 144:83-88). In addition, recombination was frequently detected in the Vb isolate, the first PepMoV isolate reported in Korea, suggesting significant involvement in the evolution of PepMoV in Korea. These initial results of our recombination analyses among PepMoV isolates in Korea may serve as clues to further investigate the biological variations and evolution of PepMoV brought about by recombination.

Worm Virus Modeling and Simulation Methodology Using Artificial Life. (인공생명기반의 웜 바이러스 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 방법론)

  • Oh Ji-yeon;Chi Sung-do
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.171-179
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    • 2005
  • Computer virus modeling and simulation research has been conducted with focus on the network vulnerability analysis. However, computer virus generally shows the biological virus characters such as proliferation, reproduction and evolution. Therefore it is necessary to research the computer virus modeling and simulation using Artificial Life. The approach of computer modeling and simulation using the Artificial Life technology Provides the efficient analysis method for the effects on the network by computer virus and the behavioral mechanism of the computer virus. Hence this paper proposes the methodology of computer virus modeling and simulation using Artificial Life, which may be contribute the research on the computer virus vaccine.

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Genealogical Diversity of Endogenous Retrovirus in the Jawless Fish Genome

  • Song Jing;Wei Jie;Ma Yongping;Sun Yan;Li Zhi
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.1412-1419
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    • 2023
  • Retroviral integration into ancient vertebrate genomes left traces that can shed light on the early history of viruses. In this study, we explored the early evolution of retroviruses by isolating nine Spuma endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) and one Epsilon ERV from the genomes of Agnatha and Chondrichthyes. Phylogenetic analysis of protein sequences revealed a striking pattern of co-evolution between jawless fish ERV and their host, while shark ERV underwent ancient cross-class viral transmission with jawless fish, ray-finned fish, and amphibians. Nucleotide sequence analysis showed that jawless fish ERV emerged in the Palaeozoic period, relatively later than ray-finned fish ERV. Moreover, codon analysis suggested that the jawless fish ERV employed an infection strategy that mimics the host codon. The genealogical diversity of ERVs in the jawless fish genome highlights the importance of studying different viral species. Overall, our findings provide valuable insights into the evolution of retroviruses and their interactions with their hosts.

A NON-MARKOVIAN EVOLUTION MODEL OF HIV POPULATION WITH BUNCHING BEHAVIOUR

  • Sridharan, V.;Jayshree, P.R.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.785-796
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    • 1998
  • In this paper we propose a model of HIv population through method of phases with non-Markovian evolution of immi-gration. The analysis leads to an explicit differnetial equations for the generating functions of the total population size. The detection process of antibodies (against the antigen of virus) is analysed and an explicit expression for the correlation functions are provided. A measure of bunching is also introduced for some particular choice of parameters.

Worm Virus Modeling and Simu1ation Methodology Using Artificial Life (인공생명 기반의 웜바이러스 모델링 및 시뮬레이선 방법론)

  • You, Yong-Jun;Chae, Soo-Hoan;Chi, Sung-Do;Oh, Ji-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2006
  • Computer virus modeling and simulation research has conducted with focus on the network vulnerability analysis. But computer virus shows the biological virus characters such as proliferation, reproduction and evolution. Therefore it is necessary to research the computer virus modeling and simulation using the Artificial life technique. The approach of computer modeling and simulation using Artificial life provides the analysis method about the effects on the network by computer virus and the behavior mechanism of computer virus. Hence this paper proposes the methodology of computer virus modeling and simulation using Artificial life, which is effected to contribute the research on the computer virus vaccine.

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Survey of Garlic Virus Disease and phylogenetic Characterization of Garlic Viruses of the Genus Allexivirus Isolated in Korea

  • Koo, Bong-Jin;Kang, Sang-Cu;Chang, Moo-Ung
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 2002
  • A survey of virus infection in garlic plants cultivated in Korea was conducted for three years. Most virus-infected garlic plants (Allium sativum) showed typical symptoms on the leaves such as yellow mosaic, stripes, and distortion. Through immunosorbent electron micro-scopy and RT-PCR analysis, the complex mixtures of viruses including garlic viruses of the genus Allerivirus, gaylic strain of Leek yellow stripe virus of the genus Potyvirus, and Garlic latent virus of the genus Carlavirus were identified in the virus-infected garlic plants. Among these viruses, Allexivirus was the most frequently detect-ed in the regions surveyed. Using sets of differential primers for Allexivirus genomes, two members of the genus were amplified and sequenced from the purified viruses. The deduced amino acid sequences for the coat proteins and the nucleic acid binding proteins of two viruses showed high homologies to Garlic virus A (CarV-A) and Garlic virus D (GarV-D) of Allekivirus. This is the first report of GarV-A and GarV-D in Korea. This suggests that Allexivirus in gavlic plants in Korea was mixed and varied. Phylogenetic analyses showed that the genus Allexivirus was diversi(ied by the processes of accumulation and evolution of viruses in garlic plants due to the long period of repeated vegetative propagation.

Molecular Identification and Genetic Diversity Analysis of Papaya Leaf Curl China Virus Infecting Ageratum conyzoides

  • Liping Zhang;Shujie Wu;Meisheng Zhao;Hussein Ghanem;Gentu Wu;Mingjun Li;Ling Qing
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.551-558
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    • 2024
  • Papaya leaf curl China virus (PaLCuCNV) is a damaging plant pathogen causing substantial losses to crop. The complete genomes of three PaLCuCNV isolates from Ageratum conyzoides were obtained and combined with the 68 reference isolates in GenBank for comprehensive genetic diversity analyses using specialized computational tools. Sequence alignment revealed nucleotide sequence similarity ranging from 85.3% to 99.9% among 71 PaLCuCNV isolates. Employing phylogenetic analysis, 71 PaLCuCNV sequences were clustered into five groups, with no significant correlation observed between genetic differentiation and either host species or geographical origin. Additionally, 13 recombination events across all PaLCuCNV isolates were identified. Genetic diversity analysis indicated the ongoing expansion and evolution of PaLCuCNV populations, supported by a neutral model. Moreover, significant genetic differentiation was observed among distinct viral populations, primarily attributed to genetic drift. Overall, our findings provide valuable insights into the detection, genetic variation, and evolutionary dynamics of PaLCuCNV.