2022
Arthofer P, Delafont V, Willemsen A, Panhölzl F, and Horn M. Defensive symbiosis against giant viruses in amoebae. PNAS, 119(36):e2205856119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2205856119.
Picard MA, Leblay F, Cassan C, Willemsen A, Bauffe F, Decourcelle M, Demange A, and Bravo IG. The multi-level phenotypic impact of synonymous substitutions: heterologous gene expression in human cells. biorχiv doi: 10.1101/2022.01.07.475042.
2021
Willemsen A and Bravo IG. Ecological opportunity, radiation events and genomic innovations shaped the episodic evolutionary history of papillomaviruses. biorχiv doi: 10.1101/2020.03.08.982421.
2020
Willemsen A, van den Boom A, Dietz J, Dagalp SB, Dogan F, Bravo IG, Ehrhardt A, and Ehrke-Schulz E. Genomic and phylogenetic characterization of ChPV2, a novel goat PV closely related to the Xi-PV1 species infecting bovines. Virology Journal, 17(1):167. doi: 10.1186/s12985-020-01440-9.
Fanni Borvető, Bravo IG and Willemsen A. Papillomaviruses infecting cetaceans exhibit signs of genome adaptation following a recombination event. Virus Evolution, veaa038. doi: 10.1093/ve/veaa038.
Flores-Miramontes MG, Olszewski D, Artaza-Irigaray C, Willemsen A, Bravo IG, Vallejo-Ruíz V, Leal- Herrera YA, Piña-Sánchez P, Molina-Pineda A, Cantón-Romero JC, Martínez-Silva MG, Jave-Suárez LF and Aguilar-Lemarroy A. Detection of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and unclassified Human Papillomaviruses in cervical cancer samples from Mexican women. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10:234. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00234.
2019
Willemsen A, Félez-Sánchez M, and Bravo IG. Genome plasticity in Papillomaviruses and de novo emergence of E5 Oncogenes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(6):1602-1617. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evz095. biorχiv doi: 10.1101/337477. Recommended by PCI Evol Biol, doi: 10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100067.
Willemsen A and Bravo IG. Origin and evolution of papillomavirus (onco) genes and genomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1773):20180303. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0303. biorχiv doi: 10.1101/428912.
2018
Willemsen A, Carrasco JL, Elena SF, and Zwart MP. Going, going, gone: predicting the fate of genomic insertions in plant RNA viruses. Heredity, 121(5):499-509. doi: 10.1038/s41437-018-0086-x. PDF
2017
Willemsen A, Zwart MP, and Elena SF. High virulence does not necessarily impede viral adaptation to a new host: a case study using a plant RNA virus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17(1):25. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0881-7. bioRχiv: 10.1101/060137.
Willemsen A, Zwart MP, Ambrós S, Carrasco JL, and Elena SF. 2b or Not 2b: Experimental evolution of functional exogenous sequences in a plant RNA virus. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(2):297-310. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw300. bioRχiv: 10.1101/079970.
2016
Willemsen A, Zwart MP, Higueras P, Sardanyés J, and Elena SF. Predicting the stability of homologous gene duplications in a plant RNA virus. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8(9):3065-3082. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw219. bioRχiv: 10.1101/060517.
Velasco L, Salem N, Willemsen A, Lapidot M, Mansour AN, Rubio L, and Galipienso L. Genetic variation and evolutionary forces shaping Cucumber vein yellowing virus populations: risk of emergence of virulent isolates in Europe. Plant Pathology, 65(5):847-856. doi: 10.1111/ppa.12465.
Willemsen A, Zwart MP, Tromas N, Majer E, Daròs JA, and Elena SF. Multiple barriers to the evolution of alternative gene orders in a positive-strand RNA virus. Genetics, 202(4):1503-1521. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.185017.
2015
Galipienso L, Martínez C, Willemsen A, Alfaro-Férnandez A, Font-San Ambrosio I, Davino S, and Rubio L. Genetic variability and evolutionary analysis of parietaria mottle virus: role of selection and genetic exchange. Archives of Virology, 160(10):2611-2616. doi: 10.1007/s00705-015-2550-8. PDF
Janzac B, Willemsen A, Cuevas JM, Glais L, Tribodet M, Verrier J-L, Elena SF, and Jacquot E. Brazilian Potato virus Y isolates identified as members of a new clade facilitate the reconstruction of evolutionary traits within this species Plant Pathology, 64(4):799-807. doi: 10.1111/ppa.12318.
Cuevas J M, Willemsen A, Hillung J, Zwart MP, and Elena SF. Temporal dynamics of intrahost molecular evolution for a plant RNA virus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(5):1132-1147. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv028.
2014-2011
Walia J J, Willemsen A, Elci E, Caglayan K, Falk BW, and Rubio L. 2014. Genetic variation and possible mechanisms driving the evolution of worldwide Fig mosaic virus isolates. Phytopathology, 104(1):108-114. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-05-13-0145-R.
Majer E, Salvador Z, Zwart MP, Willemsen A, Elena SF, and Daròs JA. 2014. Relocation of the NIb gene in the Tobacco etch potyvirus genome. Journal of Virology, 88(8):4586-4590. doi: 10.1128/JVI.03336-13.
Zwart MP, Willemsen A, Daròs JA, and Elena SF. 2014. Experimental evolution of pseudogenization and gene loss in a plant RNA virus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31(1):121-134. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst175.
Davino S, Willemsen A, Panno S, Davino M, Catara A, Elena SF, and Rubio L. 2013. Emergence and phylodynamics of Citrus tristeza virus in Sicily, Italy. PLoS One, 8(6):e66700. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066700.
Münk C, Willemsen A, and Bravo IG. 2012. An ancient history of gene duplications, fusions and losses in the evolution of APOBEC3 mutators in mammals. BMC evolutionary biology, 12:71. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-71.
Bogaert L, Willemsen A, Vanderstraeten E, Bracho MA, de Baere C, Bravo IG, and Martens A. 2012. EcPV2 DNA in equine genital squamous cell carcinomas and normal genital mucosa. Veterinary Microbiology, 158(1-2):33-41. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.02.005. PDF
2019
Willemsen A and Zwart MP. On the stability of sequences inserted into viral genomes. Virus Evolution, 5(2):vez045. doi: 10.1093/ve/vez045.
Oral
2019 | Willemsen A, Félez-Sánchez M, and Bravo IG. Genome plasticity in Papillomaviruses and de novo emergence of E5 oncogenes. Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019 (SMBE2019). Manchester, England (UK). |
Willemsen A, Cassan C, and Bravo IG. Combining computational and experimental approaches to better understand the origin and evolution of papillomavirus oncogenes. Tenth Workshop in Virus Evolution. State College, Pennsylvania (USA). | |
2018 | Willemsen A and Bravo IG. Origin and evolution of papillomavirus (onco)genes and genomes. II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Evolution 2018). Montpellier, France. |
Willemsen A, Cassan C, and Bravo IG. Ancestral gene resurrection of the papillomavirus oncogenes. 14th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGIDXIV). Sitges, Spain. | |
2017 | Willemsen A, Félez-Sánchez M, and Bravo IG. An evolutionary history of papillomaviruses. 31st International Papillomavirus Conference (HPV2017). Cape Town, South Africa. |
2015 | Willemsen A, Tromas N, Majer E, Daròs JA, Zwart MP, and Elena SF. Experimental evolution of genome rearrangements in a plant RNA virus. Eighth Workshop in Virus Evolution. State College, Pennsylvania (USA). |
Poster
2018 | Willemsen A, and Bravo IG. A brief history of papillomaviruses: on the origin and evolution of (onco)genes and genomes. Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2018 (SMBE2018). Yokohama, Japan. |
2017 | Willemsen A, and Bravo IG. The evolutionary history of the E5, E6 and E7 papillomavirus oncogenes. CNRS Jacques-Monod Conference "Open questions in disease ecology and evolution: from basic research to evolutionary medicine". Roscoff, France. |
Willemsen A, and Bravo IG. An evolutionary history of papillomaviruses. 16th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB2017). Groningen, The Netherlands. | |
2016 | Willemsen A, Zwart MP, Tromas N, Ambró S, Elena SF. A road map to genome architecture: Experimental evolution in an RNA virus. 16th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME16). Montreal, Canada. |
2015 | Willemsen A, Zwart MP, and Elena SF. Experimental evolution of genetic redundancy in a plant RNA virus. Gordon Research Conference on Gordon Research Conference on Molecular mechanisms in evolution. Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts (USA). |