Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution
International audience Most theories on viral evolution are speculative and lack fossil comparison. Here, we isolated a modern Pithovirus-like virus from sewage samples. This giant virus, named Pithovirus massiliensis, was compared with its prehistoric counterpart, Pithovirus sibericum, found in Sib...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-01455587v1 2023-05-15T17:57:48+02:00 Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution Levasseur, Anthony Andreani, Julien Delerce, Jeremy Khalil, Jacques Bou Robert, Catherine La Scola, Bernard Raoult, Didier Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48 Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2016-08 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01455587 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw153 en eng HAL CCSD Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/gbe/evw153 hal-01455587 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01455587 doi:10.1093/gbe/evw153 PUBMEDCENTRAL: PMC5010891 ISSN: 1759-6653 EISSN: 1759-6653 Genome Biology and Evolution https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01455587 Genome Biology and Evolution, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2016, 8 (8), pp.2333-2339. ⟨10.1093/gbe/evw153⟩ [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2016 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw153 2022-09-28T00:13:57Z International audience Most theories on viral evolution are speculative and lack fossil comparison. Here, we isolated a modern Pithovirus-like virus from sewage samples. This giant virus, named Pithovirus massiliensis, was compared with its prehistoric counterpart, Pithovirus sibericum, found in Siberian permafrost. Our analysis revealed near-complete gene repertoire conservation, including horizontal gene transfer and ORFans. Furthermore, all orthologous genes evolved under strong purifying selection with a non-synonymous and synonymous ratio in the same range as the ratio found in the prokaryotic world. The comparison between fossil and modern Pithovirus species provided an estimation of the cadence of the molecular clock, reaching up to 3 x 10(-6) mutations/site/year. In addition, the strict conservation of HGTs and ORFans in P. massiliensis revealed the stablegenetic mosaicism in giant viruses and excludes the concept of a bag of genes. The genetic stability for 30,000 years of P. massiliensis demonstrates that giant viruses evolve similarly to prokaryotes by classical mechanisms of evolution, including selection and fixation of genes, followed by selective constraints. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Genome Biology and Evolution 8 8 2333 2339 |
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International audience Most theories on viral evolution are speculative and lack fossil comparison. Here, we isolated a modern Pithovirus-like virus from sewage samples. This giant virus, named Pithovirus massiliensis, was compared with its prehistoric counterpart, Pithovirus sibericum, found in Siberian permafrost. Our analysis revealed near-complete gene repertoire conservation, including horizontal gene transfer and ORFans. Furthermore, all orthologous genes evolved under strong purifying selection with a non-synonymous and synonymous ratio in the same range as the ratio found in the prokaryotic world. The comparison between fossil and modern Pithovirus species provided an estimation of the cadence of the molecular clock, reaching up to 3 x 10(-6) mutations/site/year. In addition, the strict conservation of HGTs and ORFans in P. massiliensis revealed the stablegenetic mosaicism in giant viruses and excludes the concept of a bag of genes. The genetic stability for 30,000 years of P. massiliensis demonstrates that giant viruses evolve similarly to prokaryotes by classical mechanisms of evolution, including selection and fixation of genes, followed by selective constraints. |
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Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR48 Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Institut des sciences biologiques (INSB-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution |
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Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution |
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Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution |
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Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution |
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Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution |
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comparison of a modern and fossil pithovirus reveals its genetic conservation and evolution |
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ISSN: 1759-6653 EISSN: 1759-6653 Genome Biology and Evolution https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01455587 Genome Biology and Evolution, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2016, 8 (8), pp.2333-2339. ⟨10.1093/gbe/evw153⟩ |
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