Intrahost speciations and host switches played an important role in the evolution of herpesviruses.

ABSTRACT: In times when herpesvirus genomic data were scarce, the cospeciation between these viruses and their hosts was considered to be common knowledge. However, as more herpesviral sequences were made available, tree reconciliation analyses started to reveal topological incongruences between host and viral phylogenies, indicating that other cophylogenetic events, such as intrahost speciation and host switching, likely played important roles along more than 200 million years of evolutionary history of these viruses. Tree reconciliations performed with undated phylogenies can identify topological differences, but offer insufficient information to reveal temporal incongruences between the divergence timing of host and viral species. In this study, we performed cophylogenetic analyses using time-res

SUBMITTER: Brito AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062258 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature