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What factors shape viral protein evolution? Fuchs et al. estimate evolutionary rates of numerous herpesvirus proteins and residues, revealing short- and long-term evolutionary constraints.

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Functional and Structural Determinants of Long- and Short-Term Evolution of Herpesvirus Proteins
Abstract. Understanding the factors that shape viral protein evolution is a central question in evolutionary virology. However, these determinants are poor
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October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I had a great time working with @adnsvrtsn.bsky.social on this one!
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Reassessing taxonomy and virulence in the Fusobacterium nucleatum group—rebuttal of Fusobacterium animalis clades “Fna C1” and “Fna C2,” genome announcement for Fusobacterium watanabei, and descriptio...
Considerable resources are being used to study associations between the human microbiota and malignancy. There is a particular interest in the connection between Fusobacterium animalis and colorectal ...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The genus Akkermansia is populated by a multitude of biological species with a wide distribution in the animal kingdom | Biology Direct
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July 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Systematic analysis of structural disorder in the minimal proteome of Mycoplasma pneumoniae | Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Systematic analysis of structural disorder in the minimal proteome of Mycoplasma pneumoniae | Microbiology Spectrum
We performed a proteome-wide investigation of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mpn, class Mollicutes). A considerable fraction of the Mpn proteome (17%) is embedded in...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Population genetic structure and human adaptation of Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus
AbstractBackground. Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV), the etiologic agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma, is human-specific and it is thought to have emer
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February 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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An ancient and still ongoing genetic conflict between transposable elements and their repressors
Background. Transposable element (TE) mobilization poses a significant fitness challenge to host genomes. Consequently, a variety of systems have emerged to silence TE activity. Just like TEs, such sy...
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December 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Our Herpesfolds paper is out in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/d1uM7 Congrats to Timothy Soh,
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, Saskia Sanders, Robin Schaeper and Benedikt Kaufer!
Have a look at our database at herpesfolds.org by Malte Kansy
November 26, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Comparative genomics reveal a novel phylotaxonomic order in the genus Fusobacterium
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Comparative genomics reveal a novel phylotaxonomic order in the genus Fusobacterium - Communications Biology
Parsing the genetic diversity within the Fusobacterium genus provides ample evidence of species miss-classification and of undescribed species, and calls for a re-analysis of F. nucleatum features ass...
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September 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM