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ArticleViruses2017

Re-Assembly and Analysis of an Ancient Variola Virus Genome.

Chad Smithson, Jacob Imbery, Chris Upton

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Article in Viruses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chad SmithsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada. chadsmiths83@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-3119-2503
Jacob ImberyDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada. jimbery@live.ca.
Chris UptonDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada. cupton@uvic.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-9019-8967
University of Victoria · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a major improvement to the assembly of published short read sequencing data from an ancient variola virus (VARV) genome by the removal of contig-capping sequencing tags and manual searches for gap-spanning reads. The new assembly, together with camelpox and taterapox genomes, permitted new dates to be calculated for the last common ancestor of all VARV genomes. The analysis of recently sequenced VARV-like cowpox virus genomes showed that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and amino acid changes in the vaccinia virus (VACV)-Cop-O1L ortholog, predicted to be associated with VARV host specificity and virulence, were introduced into the lineage before the divergence of these viruses. A comparison of the ancient and modern VARV genome sequences also revealed a measurable drift towards adenine + thymine (A + T) richness.

Indexed as

Genome, ViralBase CompositionDNA, ViralEvolution, MolecularHost SpecificityOrthopoxvirusPhylogenyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideVariola virusDNA, Viralcamelpoxcowpoxorthopoxvirusphylogenypoxvirussmallpoxtaterapoxvariola virusvirus virulence

Identifiers

PMID28885569
PMCPMC5618019
OpenAlexW2751447020

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