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Abstracts from the Virus Evolution Workshop
Ardmore, OK
October 21 - 24th, 1999

Genomes of citrus tristeza virus isolates from distal environments,origins and time are essentially identical
Maria R. Albiach-Marti, Munir Mawassi, Siddarame Gowda, Tatineni Satyanarayana and William O. Dawson

Rapid and dynamic evolution of quasispecies clouds during equineinfectious anemia virus infection
Praisith Baccam, Micheal Belshan, James Cornette and Susan Carpenter

Comparative phylogenetic analysis of rotavirus VP4, VP7, and NSP4 genes
Tamás Berke, Nancy McKnight, and David O. Matson

Recent developments with calicivirus phylogeny
Tamás Berke and David O. Matson

Phenotypic and genetic characterization of a newly emergent epizootic VEE subtype IE virus in Mexico
Aaron C. Brault, Ann M. Powers and Scott C. Weaver

Evolution by Small Jerks
Lin Chao

Molecular characterization of human influenza A viruses bearing swine-like hemagglutinin genes
Lynn Cooper, Christopher Olsen, Xiyan Xu, Alexander Klimov, Nancy Cox and Kanta Subbarao

Reduced biological transmission of RNA virus populations following genetic bottlenecks
Lynn Cooper and Thomas Scott

Evolution of zucchini yellow mosaic potyvirus (ZYMV) variability on Martinique Island since its first detection
Cecile Desbie and Herve Lecoq

A maximum likelihood approach for testing and calibrating the molecular clock using temporally dispersed sequences
Roald Forsberg, Anne-Mette Krabbe Pedersen, Jotun Hein, Martin Oleksiewicz and Torben Storgaard

Producing a helper component to mediate vector transmission:
 is this associated with a selective cost during cauliflower mosaic virus infection cycle?
R. Froissart, Y. Michalakis and Stephane Blanc

Genetic variability of plant virus populations
Fernando García-Arenal, Aurora Fraile and José M. Malpica

Molecular characterization of Nipah virus,
 a newly emerging, highly pathogenic paramyxovirus
Brian H. Harcourt, Azaibi Tamin, William J. Bellini,Thomas G. Ksiazek, Pierre Rollin and Paul A. Rota

Biological variability and phylogenetic relationships of beet polerovirus species
Sébastien Hauser, Mark Stevens, Christophe Mougel, Etienne Herrbach, Helen G. Smith, Christiane Fritsch and Olivier Lemaire

Evolutionary dynamics of P gene overlapping reading frames in the paramyxoviridae and rhabdoviridae
I. King Jordan, Ben A. Sutter IV and Marcella A. McClure

Genetic diversity and evolution of closteroviruses
Alexander V. Karasev

Genetic diversity patterns and evolution of an aquatic rhabdovirus
Gael Kurath, Ryan Troyer, Eric D. Anderson and Eveline J. Emmenegger

Bioinformatic analysis of dUTPase encoding genes in viruses and their hosts
Marcella A. McClure and Angela M. Baldo

Identification and classification of human picornaviruses using capsid sequence data
M. Steven Oberste, K Maher, M.R. Flemister, G. Marchetti, D.R. Kilpatrick and Mark A. Pallansch

Evolution of Bovine virus diarrhea virus (BVD virus): where is heterogeneity generated?
Ernst Peterhans, Hanspeter Stalder, Phillipp Meier, J. Rüfenacht, Marc Strasser, Patrick Schaller and Christian Hertig

Contribution of virological surveillance to measles control and elimination programs
Paul A. Rota, Stephanie Liffick, Jennifer S. Rota and William J. Bellini

Genetic diversity of natural populations of plant viruses in the family Closteroviridae
Luis Rubio, Ping Kong and Bryce W. Falk

JC virus in the South Pacific: New variants with an unusual regulatory region rearrangement in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Gerald L. Stoner, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, David V. Jobes, Hansjurgen T. Agostini, Sylvester C. Chima, Charles S. Mgone, Richard Yanagihara and Caroline F. Ryschkewitsch

Comparison of influenza viruses from different species to determine amino acid changes important for the virus to cross species
David L. Suarez

Epistatic interactions can lower the cost of resistance
Michael Travisano, Brendan J. M. Bohannan and Richard E. Lenski

Drift and conservatism in RNA virus evolution
Simon Wain-Hobson

Heterogeneity in the 3'untranslated region of tobacco mild green mosaic virus from Nicotiana glauca resulting in variants with 3 or 6 pseudoknots
Martin Ngon A Yassi, Sohrab Bodaghi and J. Allan Dodds

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To contact the organizers:
e-mail: mroossinck@noble.org

Dr. Marilyn Roossinck
Plant Biology Division
The Noble Foundation
P.O. Box 2180
Ardmore, OK 73402

phone: 580 224-6630