Journal article
The evolutionary dynamics of bluetongue virus
Journal of molecular evolution, Vol.70(6), pp.583-592
06/2010
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9354-y
PMID: 20526713
Abstract
Bluetongue virus (BTV) is a midge-borne member of the genus Orbivirus that causes an eponymous debilitating livestock disease of great agricultural impact and which has expanded into Europe in recent decades. Reassortment among the ten segments comprising the double-stranded (ds) RNA genome of BTV has played an important role in generating the epidemic strains of this virus in Europe. In this study, we investigated the dynamics of BTV genome segment evolution utilizing time-structured data sets of complete sequences from four segments, totalling 290 sequences largely sampled from ruminant hosts. Our analysis revealed that BTV genome segments generally evolve under strong purifying selection and at substitution rates that are generally lower (mean rates of approximately 0.5-7 x 10(-4) nucleotide substitutions per site, per year) than vector-borne positive-sense viruses with single-strand (ss) RNA genomes. These also represent the most robust estimates of the nucleotide substitution rate in a dsRNA virus generated to date. Additionally, we determined that patterns of geographic structure and times to most recent common ancestor differ substantially between each segment, including a relatively recent origin for the diversity of segment 10 within the past millennium. Together, these findings demonstrate the effect of reassortment to decouple the evolutionary dynamics of BTV genome segments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The evolutionary dynamics of bluetongue virus
- Creators
- Giovanna Carpi - IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Environment and Natural Resources Area, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, ItalyEdward C HolmesAndrew Kitchen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of molecular evolution, Vol.70(6), pp.583-592
- Publisher
- Germany
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00239-010-9354-y
- PMID
- 20526713
- ISSN
- 0022-2844
- eISSN
- 1432-1432
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2010
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983984526002771
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