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ArticleJournal of virology2008

Estimation of the effective number of founders that initiate an infection after aphid transmission of a multipartite plant virus.

Mónica Betancourt, Alberto Fereres, Aurora Fraile, Fernando García-Arenal

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Article in Journal of virology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Nonconcomitant host-to-host transmission of multipartite virus genome segments may lead to complete genome reconstitution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  4. Insight into aphid mediatedFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  8. Virus epidemics, plant-controlled population bottlenecks and the durability of plant resistance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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  14. Multipartite viruses: adaptive trick or evolutionary treat?NPJ systems biology and applications · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mónica BetancourtCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas and Departamento de Biotecnología, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Alberto Fereres
Aurora Fraile
Fernando García-Arenal
Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics · ESInstituto de Ciencias Agrarias · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fecundity of RNA viruses can be very high. Thus, it is often assumed that viruses have large populations, and RNA virus evolution has been mostly explained using purely deterministic models. However, population bottlenecks during the virus life cycle could result in effective population numbers being much smaller than reported censuses, and random genetic drift could be important in virus evolution. A step at which population bottlenecks may be severe is host-to-host transmission. We report here an estimate of the size of the population that starts a new infection when Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is transmitted by the aphid Aphis gossypii, based on the segregation of two CMV genotypes in plants infected by aphids that acquired the virus from plants infected by both genotypes. Results show very small effective numbers of founders, between one and two, both in experiments in which the three-partite genome of CMV was aphid transmitted and in experiments in which a fourth RNA, CMV satellite RNA, was also transmitted. These numbers are very similar to those published for Potato virus Y, which has a monopartite genome and is transmitted by aphids according to a different mechanism than CMV. Thus, the number of genomic segments seems not to be a major determinant of the effective number of founders. Also, our results suggest that the occurrence of severe bottlenecks during horizontal transmission is general for viruses nonpersistently transmitted by aphids, indicating that random genetic drift should be considered when modeling virus evolution.

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AnimalsAphidsCucumovirusFemaleGenotypeModels, BiologicalPlant DiseasesSolanum lycopersicum

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PMID18842732
PMCPMC2593348
OpenAlexW2126222710

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