ReviewNature communications2021
The evolution of cheating in viruses.
Review in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Identification of aviadenovirus and dependoparvovirus in an Adélie penguin fecal sample from Cape Royds (Ross Island, Antarctica).Archives of virology · 2026Article
- Cooperation, competition and enforcement in transposon evolution.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Cooperation.The American naturalist · 2026Review
- Exploring cooperation among social pathogens: a computational perspective.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Rethinking viral evolution: How BIAS mechanisms and Gamma-Poisson overdispersion redefine lethal mutagenesis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Antagonistic co-evolution throughout the herpesvirus life cycle.Virus evolution · 2026Review
- Phage-bacteria dynamics: The tragedy of the commons at hyperspeed.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
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- Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sociobiology meets oncology: unraveling altruistic cooperation in cancer cells and its implications.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Naturally competent bacteria and their genetic parasites-a battle for control over horizontal gene transfer?FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Navigating a Fine Balance: Point-Mutant Cheater Viruses Disrupt the Viral Replication Cycle.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Mathematical model calibrated toiScience · 2024Article
- Temperature modulates dominance of a superinfecting Arctic virus in its unicellular algal host.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Evolution of a novel engineered tripartite viral genome of a torradovirus.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Conserved untranslated regions of multipartite viruses: Natural markers of novel viral genomic components and tags of viral evolution.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Dynamic altruistic cooperation within breast tumors.Molecular cancer · 2023Article
- Open questions in the social lives of viruses.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Review
- Equilibria and oscillations in cheat-cooperator dynamics.Evolution letters · 2023Article
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Abstract
The success of many viruses depends upon cooperative interactions between viral genomes. However, whenever cooperation occurs, there is the potential for 'cheats' to exploit that cooperation. We suggest that: (1) the biology of viruses makes viral cooperation particularly susceptible to cheating; (2) cheats are common across a wide range of viruses, including viral entities that are already well studied, such as defective interfering genomes, and satellite viruses. Consequently, the evolutionary theory of cheating could help us understand and manipulate viral dynamics, while viruses also offer new opportunities to study the evolution of cheating.
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