[professional research / paleovirology]
academia
Papers, chapters, press, and the institutional paper trail.
papers
Evolutionary history of endogenous human herpesvirus 6 reflects human migration out of Africa
Amr Aswad, Gaia Aimola, Dirk Wight, Pavitra Roychoudhury, Christine Zimmermann, Josephine Hill, et al.
Endogenization and excision of human herpesvirus 6 in human genomes
Amr Aswad, Josephine Hill, Dirk Wight, Benedikt B. Kaufer
Cell-Derived Viral Genes Evolve under Stronger Purifying Selection in Rhadinoviruses
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
A novel viral lineage distantly related to herpesviruses discovered within fish genome sequence data
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
STEAK: A specific tool for transposable elements and retrovirus detection in high-throughput sequencing data
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
Endogenous Viruses Provide Shortcuts in Antiviral Immunity
Aris Katzourakis, Amr Aswad
Convergent capture of retroviral superantigens by mammalian herpesviruses
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
The First Endogenous Herpesvirus, Identified in the Tarsier Genome, and Novel Sequences from Primate Rhadinoviruses and Lymphocryptoviruses
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
The Origins of Giant Viruses, Virophages and Their Relatives in Host Genomes
Aris Katzourakis, Amr Aswad
Paleovirology and virally derived immunity
Amr Aswad, Aris Katzourakis
book chapters
room for future chapters
press/media
press clippings not yet wrangled