Papers

Selected papers and preprints.

Alpert, T., Brito A.F., Lasek-Nesselquist, E., Rothman, J., Valesano, A. L., MacKay, M. J., … & Grubaugh, N. D. (2021). Early introductions and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 7 in the United States. Cell, 184(10), 2595-2604.

Brito A.F., Machado, L. C., Oidtman, R. J., Siconelli, M. J. L., Tran, Q. M., Fauver, J. R., … & Grubaugh, N. D. (2021). Lying in wait: the resurgence of dengue virus after the Zika epidemic in Brazil. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-13.

Brito A.F., Baele, G., Nahata, K. D., Grubaugh, N. D., & Pinney, J. W. (2021). Intrahost speciations and host switches played an important role in the evolution of herpesviruses. Virus evolution, 7(1), veab025.

Kalinich CC, Jensen CG, Neugebauer P, Petrone, ME, Peña-Hernández M, Ott IM, Wyllie AL, Alpert T, Vogels CB, Fauver JR, Grubaugh ND, Brito AF (2020). Real-time public health communication of local SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology. PLOS Biology, 18(8), e3000869.

Vogels CB, Brito AF, Wyllie AL, Fauver JR, Ott IM, Kalinich CC, Petrone ME, Casanovas-Massana A, Muenker MC, Moore AJ, Klein J. et al. Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT–qPCR primer–probe sets. Nature Microbiology. 2020 Jul 10:1-7.

Fauver JR, Petrone ME, Hodcroft EB, Shioda K, Ehrlich HY, Watts AG, Vogels CB, Brito AF, et al. Coast-to-coast spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the early epidemic in the United States. Cell. 2020 May 7.

Brito AF and Pinney JW. The evolution of protein domain repertoires: shedding light on the origins of herpesviruses. Virus Evolution 2020.

Hadfield J, Brito AF, Swetnam DM, Vogels CB, Tokarz RE, Andersen KG, Smith RC, Bedford T, Grubaugh ND. Twenty years of West Nile virus spread and evolution in the Americas visualized by Nextstrain. PLoS pathogens. 2019.

Brito AF, Melo, FL, Ardisson-Araújo DMP, Sihler W, Souza ML, Ribeiro BM. Genome-wide diversity in temporal and regional populations of the betabaculovirus Erinnyis ello granulovirus (ErelGV). BMC Genomics 2018. 19:698.

Brito AF and Pinney JW. Protein–Protein Interactions in Virus–Host Systems. Frontier in Microbiology 2017. 8:1557.

Brito AF, Braconi CT, Weidmann M, Dilcher M, Alves JM, Gruber A, de Andrade Zanotto PM. The pangenome of the Anticarsia gemmatalis multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AgMNPV). Genome biology and evolution. 2016 Jan 1;8(1):94-108.

Oliveira JV, Brito AF, Braconi CT, de Melo Freire CC, Iamarino A, de Andrade Zanotto PM. Modularity and evolutionary constraints in a baculovirus gene regulatory network. BMC systems biology. 2013 Sep 4;7(1):87.