Comments on: DNA Viruses http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/ The latest news about microbiology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ajcann http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/comment-page-1/#comment-831 ajcann Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:47:35 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/#comment-831 Thanks, link fixed now. Thanks, link fixed now.

]]> By: AMLNlover http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/comment-page-1/#comment-830 AMLNlover Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:33:21 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/#comment-830 Love the site. Just found it. "DNA Viruses" dosn't work for me on Jan 10, 2009. Love the site. Just found it. “DNA Viruses” dosn’t work for me on Jan 10, 2009.

]]> By: Ed Rybicki http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Ed Rybicki Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:13:57 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/#comment-828 That got garbled...second para was MEANT to have: The virus genomes range from ~5 kb (polyoma) circular through ~40 kb linear (lambda) to ~250 kb linear (pox) to > 1 mb (mimi). That got garbled…second para was MEANT to have:

The virus genomes range from ~5 kb (polyoma) circular through ~40 kb linear (lambda) to ~250 kb linear (pox) to > 1 mb (mimi).

]]> By: Ed Rybicki http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Ed Rybicki Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:11:03 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/#comment-827 The fascinating thing about dsDNA viruses in Baltimore Group I is that the group is so obviously polyphyletic: that is, the different groupings of viruses have very different evolutionary origins, despite their pparently common genome replication strategy (DNA -> protein -> replication -> more protein -> assembly). One has viruses with genomes 1 mb (mimi). At the big end these viruses look to have borrowed from other viruses as well as eukaryotes AND prokaryotes; at the lower - who knows? And the more we look, the more we find. The fascinating thing about dsDNA viruses in Baltimore Group I is that the group is so obviously polyphyletic: that is, the different groupings of viruses have very different evolutionary origins, despite their pparently common genome replication strategy (DNA -> protein -> replication -> more protein -> assembly).

One has viruses with genomes 1 mb (mimi). At the big end these viruses look to have borrowed from other viruses as well as eukaryotes AND prokaryotes; at the lower – who knows?

And the more we look, the more we find.

]]> By: jazzin' redstart http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/comment-page-1/#comment-829 jazzin' redstart Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:03:42 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dna-viruses/#comment-829 There is a recent paper in PloS ONE about the ecology of transmission in polyomaviruses. It seems this is the first time this type of virus is deemed an arbovirus, as it is transmitted by a blowfly to bird nestlings. Parents are infected when they pick up or swallow their nestlings feces. Infectious Offspring: How Birds Acquire and Transmit an Avian Polyomavirus in the Wild http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001276 There is a recent paper in PloS ONE about the ecology of transmission in polyomaviruses. It seems this is the first time this type of virus is deemed an arbovirus, as it is transmitted by a blowfly to bird nestlings. Parents are infected when they pick up or swallow their nestlings feces.

Infectious Offspring: How Birds Acquire and Transmit an Avian Polyomavirus in the Wild
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001276

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