{"583188":{"#nid":"583188","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Adaptive strategies of multipartite viruses","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics Soft Condensed Matter \u0026amp; Physics of Living Systems: Prof. Susanna Manrubia, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CSIC) \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EViruses count amongst the most amazing organisms on Earth regarding their evolutionary and adaptive abilities. They resort to several different forms of coding information in their genomes; together with an array of different mutational mechanisms, they have succeeded in infecting all cellular organisms and in escaping any antiviral strategy (natural or artificial). We will present and discuss a puzzling example of viral adaptive strategy: viruses with multipartite genomes. Multipartite viruses possess fragmented genomes with fragments encapsidated in independent viral particles. This demands co-infection of cells to complete the viral cycle, a condition that poses severe restrictions on the number of viral particles infecting single cells. This kind of viruses infects mostly plants and represents about 16% of all viral species described. As of today, the adaptive advantage of multipartition in front of complete or fragmented genomes encapsidated in a single particle remains undisclosed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Adaptive strategies of multipartite viruses"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2016-10-26 21:06:58","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:09","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-11-01T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-11-01T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-11-01T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-11-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-11-01 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-11-01 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shaun.ashley@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshaun.ashley@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}