Arvind Varsani

Research interests

Publications

• Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

  Archives of Virology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5

• VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

  Microbiome · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00990-y

• Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2021)

  Archives of Virology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05156-1

• ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae 2021

  Journal of General Virology · 2021 · 10.1099/jgv.0.001696

• Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020)

  Archives of Virology · 2020 · 10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x

• VIRIDIC—A Novel Tool to Calculate the Intergenomic Similarities of Prokaryote-Infecting Viruses

  Viruses · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.3390/v12111268

• The new scope of virus taxonomy: partitioning the virosphere into 15 hierarchical ranks

  Nature Microbiology · 2020 · 10.1038/s41564-020-0709-x

• RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets

  Virus Evolution · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa087

• Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

  Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · 2020 · 10.1128/mmbr.00061-19

• Evolution and ecology of plant viruses

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2019 · 10.1038/s41579-019-0232-3

• Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

  Archives of Virology · 2019 · 10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w

• Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG)

  Nature Biotechnology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4306

• Alphasatellitidae: a new family with two subfamilies for the classification of geminivirus- and nanovirus-associated alphasatellites

  Archives of Virology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3854-2

• Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2018)

  Archives of Virology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3847-1

• Revisiting the taxonomy of the family Circoviridae: establishment of the genus Cyclovirus and removal of the genus Gyrovirus

  Archives of Virology · 2017 · 10.1007/s00705-017-3247-y

• Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2016.177

• ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae

  Journal of General Virology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000738

• Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

  Archives of Virology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-017-3358-5

• Capulavirus and Grablovirus: two new genera in the family Geminiviridae

  Archives of Virology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-017-3268-6

• Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2016)

  Archives of Virology · 2016 · 10.1007/s00705-016-2977-6

• Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

  Archives of Virology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2398-y

• Establishment of three new genera in the family Geminiviridae: Becurtovirus, Eragrovirus and Turncurtovirus

  Archives of Virology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-014-2050-2

• SDT: A Virus Classification Tool Based on Pairwise Sequence Alignment and Identity Calculation

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108277

• A genome-wide pairwise-identity-based proposal for the classification of viruses in the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae)

  Archives of Virology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-012-1601-7

• The Spread of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus from the Middle East to the World

  PLoS Pathogens · 2010 · 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001164

• Maize streak virus: an old and complex ‘emerging’ pathogen

  Molecular Plant Pathology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2009.00568.x

• Widely Conserved Recombination Patterns among Single-Stranded DNA Viruses

  Journal of Virology · 2008 · 10.1128/jvi.02152-08

• Recombination, decreased host specificity and increased mobility may have driven the emergence of maize streak virus as an agricultural pathogen

  Journal of General Virology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.2008/003590-0

• Recombination Patterns in Aphthoviruses Mirror Those Found in Other Picornaviruses

  Journal of Virology · 2006 · 10.1128/jvi.01100-06

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