S. Calvignac-Spencer

This study uses phylogeographic analysis of HSV-2 genomes to determine its origin and dispersal out of Africa, finding an East African origin around 90-120 kya.

The study examines primate phageomes across 23 wild non-human primate taxa, revealing phylosymbiotic patterns and social transmission of phages.

The paper reports leprosy-like lesions in wild chimpanzees and identifies M. leprae strains with rare genotypes, suggesting multiple introductions from an unknown source.

The paper identifies ASFV-like integrated elements in soft tick genomes, suggesting an ancient co-evolutionary arms race between ticks and ASFV.

The paper sequences a 1912 measles virus genome and uses molecular clock modeling to estimate measles virus divergence from rinderpest virus as early as the 4th century BCE.

This study identifies ancient recombination events between HSV-1 and HSV-2, revealing two HSV-2 lineages with distinct geographic distributions and recombination patterns.