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Topology of viral evolution
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Significance: Evolution is mediated not only by random mutations over a number of generations (vertical evolution), but also through the mixture of genomic material between individuals of different lineages (horizontal evolution). The standard evolutionary representation, the phylogenetic tree, faithfully represents the former but not the latter scenario. Although many elaborations have been developed to address this issue, there is still no agreed-upon method of incorporating both vertical and horizontal evolution. Here, we present an alternative strategy based on algebraic topology to study evolution. This method extends beyond the limits of a tree to capture directly even complex horizontal exchanges between multiple parental strains, as well as uncover broader reticulate patterns, including the segregation of segments during reassortment.
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“However, the metric space produced by using the concatenated sequences did produce significant onedimensional homology, which would preclude phylogeny as a complete explanation.”
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“When each distinct segment was studied, there was no higher-dimensional behaviour.”
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“The type of exchange of genomic material can be catalogued by the topology of the genomic data.”
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“Persistent homology shows higher-dimensional homology groups capturing some of the complex recombinant structures.”
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“when analysing the homology of avian influenza A, it was shown that several segments, containing the genes that encode the polymerases, are more likely to co-segregate together”
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“In the cases studied, these occurrences were consistent with the known horizontal transfer mechanisms in these situations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chan, J. M., Carlsson, G., & Rabadan, R.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2013-10-29
- Volume
- 110
- Issue
- 46
- Pages
- 18566-18571
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC3831954
- OpenAlex
- W2107385756
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 46
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- 2026: 10 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 12.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0905823, 0964242)
- National Institutes of Health (W81XWH, CA121852, U54-CA121852)
- National Cancer Institute (U54CA121852, U54CA149145, I-U54_CA149145-01)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Keywords
- reticulate evolution, viral evolution, algebraic topology, phylogenetic tree, reassortment, recombination, RNA viruses, H7N9 avian influenza, HIV-1 recombinants, clonal evolution
- MeSH terms
- Base Sequence, Classification, Computer Simulation, Models, Genetic, Phylogeny, HIV-1, Reassortant Viruses, Sequence Homology, Evolution, Molecular, Computational Biology, Gene Transfer, Horizontal, Principal Component Analysis, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Influenza A Virus, H7N9 Subtype
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