title: Co-divergence and host-switching in the evolution of tobamoviruses.
abstract: The proposed phylogenetic structure of the genus Tobamovirus supports the idea that these viruses have codiverged with their hosts since radiation of the hosts from a common ancestor. The determinations of genome sequence for two strains of Passion fruit mosaic virus (PafMV), a tobamovirus from plants of the family Passifloraceae (order Malpighiales) from which only one other tobamovirus (Maracuja mosaic virus; MarMV) has been characterized, combined with the development of Bayesian analysis methods for phylogenetic inference, provided an opportunity to reassess the co-divergence hypothesis. The sequence of one PafMV strain, PfaMV-TGP, was discovered during a survey of plants of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve for their virus content. Its nucleotides are only 73 % identical to those of MarMV. A conserved ORF not found in other tobamovirus genomes, and encoding a cysteine-rich protein, was found in MarMV and both PafMV strains. Phylogenetic tree construction, using an alignment of the nucleotide sequences of PafMV-TGP and other tobamoviruses resulted in a major clade containing isolates exclusively from rosid plants. Asterid-derived viruses were exclusively found in a second major clade that also contained an orchid-derived tobamovirus and tobamoviruses infecting plants of the order Brassicales. With a few exceptions, calibrating the virus tree with dates of host divergence at two points resulted in predictions of divergence times of family specific tobamovirus clades that were consistent with the times of divergence of the host plant orders.
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
authors: Anthony H
authors: AH
authors: Stobbe
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
authors: Ulrich
authors: U
authors: Melcher
authors: Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
authors: Michael W
authors: MW
authors: Palmer
authors: Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA.
authors: Marilyn J
authors: MJ
authors: Roossinck
authors: Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA.
authors: Guoan
authors: G
authors: Shen
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000821:virology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D017898:Tobamovirus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*