• A Lineage of Begomoviruses Encode Rep and AC4 Proteins of Enigmatic Ancestry: Hints on the Evolution of Geminiviruses in the New World 

      Torres Herrera, Sandra Iliana; Romero Osorio, Angélica; Moreno Valenzuela, Oscar; Pastor Palacios, Guillermo; Cardenas Conejo, Yair; Ramírez Prado, Jorge H.; Riego Ruíz, Lina Raquel; Minero García, Yereni; Ambríz Granados, Salvador; Argüello Astorga, Gerardo Rafael (MDPI, 2019)
      "The begomoviruses (BGVs) are plant pathogens that evolved in the Old World during the Cretaceous and arrived to the New World (NW) in the Cenozoic era. A subgroup of NW BGVs, the "Squash leaf curl virus (SLCV) lineage" ...
    • A Novel Divergent Geminivirus Identified in Asymptomatic New World Cactaceae Plants 

      Fontenele, Rafaela S; Salywon, Andrew M.; Majure, Lucas Charles; Cobb, Ilaria N.; Bhaskara, Amulya; Avalos Calleros, Jesús Aarón; Argüello Astorga, Gerardo Rafael; Schmidlin, Kara; Khalifeh, Anthony; Smith, Kendal; Schreck, Joshua; Lund, Michael C.; Köler, Matias; Wojciechowski, Martin F.; Hodgson, Wendy C.; Puente Martínez, Raúl; Van Doorslaer, Koenraad; Kumari, Safaa G.; Verniére, Christian J.; Filloux, Denis; Roumagnac, Philippe; Lefeuvre, Pierre F.; Ribeiro, Simone Graca; Kraberger, Simona J.; Martin, Darren P.; Varsani, Arvind (MDPI, 2020)
      "Cactaceae comprise a diverse and iconic group of flowering plants which are almost exclusively indigenous to the New World. The wide variety of growth forms found amongst the cacti have led to the trafficking of many ...
    • Identification of the Begomoviruses Squash Leaf Curl Virus and Watermelon Chlorotic Stunt Virus in Various Plant Samples in North America 

      Fontenele, Rafaela S; Bhaskara, Amulya; Cobb, Ilaria N.; Majure, Lucas Charles; Salywon, Andrew M.; Avalos Calleros, Jesús Aarón; Argüello Astorga, Gerardo Rafael; Schmidlin, Kara; Roumagnac, Philippe; Ribeiro, Simone Graca; Kraberger, Simona J.; Martin, Darren P.; Lefeuvre, Pierre F.; Varsani, Arvind (MDPI, 2021)
      "Geminiviruses are a group of plant-infecting viruses with single-stranded DNA genomes. Within this family, viruses in the genus Begomovirus are known to have a worldwide distribution causing a range of severe diseases in ...
    • Mass Spectrometry Approaches for SARS-CoV-2 Detection: Harnessing for Application in Food and Environmental Samples 

      Bojórquez Velázquez, Esaú; Llamas García, Miriam Livier; Elizalde Contreras, José Miguel; Zamora Briseño, Jesús Alejandro; Ruiz May, Eliel (MDPI, 2022)
      "The public health crisis caused by the emergence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019 has drastically changed our lifestyle in virtually all contexts around the world. SARS-CoV-2 is ...
    • New World Cactaceae Plants Harbor Diverse Geminiviruses 

      Fontenele, Rafaela S; Salywon, Andrew M.; Majure, Lucas Charles; Cobb, Ilaria N.; Bhaskara, Amulya; Avalos Calleros, Jesús Aarón; Argüello Astorga, Gerardo Rafael; Schmidlin, Kara; Khalifeh, Anthony; Smith, Kendal; Schreck, Joshua; Lund, Michael C.; Köler, Matias; Wojciechowski, Martin F.; Hodgson, Wendy C.; Puente Martínez, Raúl; Van Doorslaer, Koenraad; Kumari, Safaa G.; Oyeniran, Kehinde A.; Verniére, Christian J.; Filloux, Denis; Roumagnac, Philippe; Lefeuvre, Pierre F.; Ribeiro, Simone Graca; Kraberger, Simona J.; Martin, Darren P.; Varsani, Arvind (MDPI, 2021)
      "The family Cactaceae comprises a diverse group of typically succulent plants that are native to the American continent but have been introduced to nearly all other continents, predominantly for ornamental purposes. Despite ...