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Overview

Arvind Varsani is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on agricultural and biological sciences, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad areas, Varsani's work touches on notable subfields such as plant science, infectious diseases, ecology, animal science and zoology, and endocrinology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to plant virus research studies, animal virus infection studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, plant and fungal interactions research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, virus-based gene therapy research, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Varsani has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Simona Kraberger, Rafaela S. Fontenele, Mart Krupovìč, Joy M. Custer, and Rolf U. Halden.

The venues most often publishing Varsani's research include Archives of Virology, Viruses, Microbiology Resource Announcements, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Virology.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Varsani include:

  1. VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses, 2021, Microbiome
  2. VIRIDIC-A Novel Tool to Calculate the Intergenomic Similarities of Prokaryote-Infecting Viruses, 2020, Viruses
  3. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World, 2020, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  4. RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets, 2020, Virus Evolution
  5. Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2021), 2021, Archives of Virology

Best Publications

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

    Brejnev Muhizi Muhire;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Darren Patrick Martin

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

    Jiarong Guo;Ben Bolduc;Ahmed A. Zayed;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani

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

    Andrew M. Q. King;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian;Michael J. Adams

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

    M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae.

    F. Murilo Zerbini;Rob W Briddon;Ali Idris;Darren P Martin

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

    Cristina Moraru;Arvind Varsani;Andrew M. Kropinski

  • Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

    Judith K. Brown;F. Murilo Zerbini;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

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

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  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

    Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

    Peter Simmonds;Mike J. Adams;Mária Benkő;Mya Breitbart

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

    Darren Patrick Martin;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Philippe Roumagnac;Gerrit Botha

  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

    Eugene V. Koonin;Valerian V. Dolja;Mart Krupovic;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani

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

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

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

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

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  • Revisiting the Taxonomy of the Family Circoviridae: Establishment of the Genus Cyclovirus and Removal of the Genus Gyrovirus

    Karyna Rosario;Mya Breitbart;Balázs Harrach;Joaquim Segalés

  • The spread of tomato yellow leaf curl virus from the Middle East to the world.

    Pierre Lefeuvre;Darren P. Martin;Gordon W Harkins;Philippe Lemey

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae 2021

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  • Recombination patterns in aphthoviruses mirror those found in other picornaviruses

    Livio Heath;Eric van der Walt;Arvind Varsani;Darren P. Martin

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

    Peter J. Walker;Stuart G. Siddell;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian

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

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones;Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda

  • The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks

    Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Mart Krupovic;Arcady Mushegian;Andrew M. Kropinski

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

    Brejnev Muhire;Darren P. Martin;Judith K. Brown;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • Widely Conserved Recombination Patterns among Single-Stranded DNA Viruses

    Pierre Lefeuvre;Jean-Michel Lett;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Darren Patrick Martin

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

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Philippe Roumagnac;Marc Fuchs;Jesús Navas-Castillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward P. Rybicki
Edward P. Rybicki University of Cape Town
Pierre Lefeuvre
Pierre Lefeuvre University of La Réunion
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Mya Breitbart
Mya Breitbart University of South Florida
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Rob W. Briddon
Rob W. Briddon National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Anna-Lise Williamson
Anna-Lise Williamson University of Cape Town
Andrew M. Kropinski
Andrew M. Kropinski University of Guelph
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
F. Murilo Zerbini
F. Murilo Zerbini Universidade Federal de Viçosa

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