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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Valerian V. Dolja is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on Plant Virus Research Studies and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, alongside areas such as Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and Viral Infections and Vectors.

Frequent co-authors include Eugene V. Koonin, Mart Krupovìč, Yuri I. Wolf, Uri Neri, and Antônio Pedro Camargo, reflecting collaborative efforts in advancing virology and related molecular research.

Valerian V. Dolja has published in several scientific venues with a notable presence in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Cell, and the Journal of Virology.

Some recent important papers authored by or involving Dolja include:

  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World, 2020, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales, 2020, Archives of Virology
  • Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Cressdnaviricota: a Virus Phylum Unifying Seven Families of Rep-Encoding Viruses with Single-Stranded, Circular DNA Genomes, 2020, Journal of Virology

Dolja's research contributions have been recognized by their election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and Taxonomy of Positive-Strand RNA Viruses: Implications of Comparative Analysis of Amino Acid Sequences

    Eugene V. Koonin;Valerian V. Dolja;T. Jack Morris

  • The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

    Eugene V Koonin;Tatiana G Senkevich;Valerian V Dolja

  • Viral RNA silencing suppressors inhibit the microRNA pathway at an intermediate step

    Elisabeth J. Chapman;Alexey I. Prokhnevsky;Kodetham Gopinath;Valerian V. Dolja

  • Small RNA binding is a common strategy to suppress RNA silencing by several viral suppressors.

    Lóránt Lakatos;Tibor Csorba;Vitantonio Pantaleo;Elisabeth J. Chapman

  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

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

  • Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity

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

  • Origins and Evolution of the Global RNA Virome.

    Yuri I. Wolf;Darius Kazlauskas;Darius Kazlauskas;Jaime Iranzo;Adriana Lucía-Sanz;Adriana Lucía-Sanz

  • Distinct functions of capsid protein in assembly and movement of tobacco etch potyvirus in plants.

    V.V. Dolja;R. Haldeman;N.L. Robertson;W.G. Dougherty

  • Family Flexiviridae: a case study in virion and genome plasticity.

    Giovanni P. Martelli;Michael J. Adams;Jan F. Kreuze;Valerian V. Dolja

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos;Ashley C. Banyard;Christopher F. Basler

  • Comparative and functional genomics of closteroviruses.

    Valerian V. Dolja;Jan F. Kreuze;Jan F. Kreuze;Jari P.T. Valkonen;Jari P.T. Valkonen

  • Myosin-dependent endoplasmic reticulum motility and F-actin organization in plant cells

    Haruko Ueda;Etsuo Yokota;Natsumaro Kutsuna;Tomoo Shimada

  • Capsid Protein Determinants Involved in Cell-to-Cell and Long Distance Movement of Tobacco Etch Potyvirus

    Valerian V. Dolja;Ruth Haldeman-Cahill;Amanda E. Montgomery;Kathryn A. Vandenbosch

  • New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

    David M. Kristensen;Arcady R. Mushegian;Arcady R. Mushegian;Valerian V. Dolja;Eugene V. Koonin

  • The family Closteroviridae revised

    G.P. Martelli;A.A. Agranovsky;M. Bar-Joseph;D. Boscia

  • Tagging of plant potyvirus replication and movement by insertion of beta-glucuronidase into the viral polyprotein

    Valerian V. Dolja;Helen J. McBride;James C. Carrington

  • The Big Bang of picorna-like virus evolution antedates the radiation of eukaryotic supergroups.

    Eugene V. Koonin;Yuri I. Wolf;Keizo Nagasaki;Valerian V. Dolja

  • A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

    Eugene V Koonin;Valerian V Dolja

  • Virus World as an Evolutionary Network of Viruses and Capsidless Selfish Elements

    Eugene V. Koonin;Valerian V. Dolja

  • Two class XI myosins function in organelle trafficking and root hair development in Arabidopsis.

    Valera V. Peremyslov;Alexey I. Prokhnevsky;Dror Avisar;Valerian V. Dolja

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Joseph G. Atabekov
Joseph G. Atabekov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Yuri I. Wolf
Yuri I. Wolf National Institutes of Health
James C. Carrington
James C. Carrington Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Alexander V. Karasev
Alexander V. Karasev University of Idaho
Robert R. Martin
Robert R. Martin Agricultural Research Service
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Giovanni P. Martelli
Giovanni P. Martelli University of Bari Aldo Moro

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