Dr Robert Gifford
- Affiliate Researcher (School of Infection & Immunity)
email:
Robert.Gifford@glasgow.ac.uk
MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), Garscube Campus,, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road
Publications
2026
Gianopulos, J. E. et al. (2026) ZNF274 constrains lineage plasticity and drives intrinsic resistance to CDK7 inhibitors in pancreatic cancer. Nature Communications, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-73380-x) (PMID:42177198) (Early Online Publication)
2025
Gifford, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2025)
Pervasive horizontal transfer of adeno-associated virus capsid genes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(32),
e250592812.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2505928122)
(PMID:40773239)
(PMCID:PMC12358894)
Wright, Derek W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0411-4497, Mojsiejczuk, Laura, Hughes, Joseph J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gifford, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Robertson, David L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-0221, Goldhill, Daniel and Hutchinson, Edward C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-9096
(2025)
Interactive Visualisation of Influenza Phylogenetics with Dynamic Query Integration and Identification of Mammalian Adaptations.
RSS International Conference 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland, 01-04 September 2025.
Wright, Derek W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0411-4497, Mojsiejczuk, Laura, Mukaddas, Afrida, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Robertson, David L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-0221, Goldhill, Daniel and Hutchinson, Edward C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-9096
(2025)
Interactive Visualisation of Influenza Phylogenetics with Dynamic Query Integration and Identification of Mammalian Adaptations.
15th International Meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2025), Cambridge, UK, 08-11 April 2025.
2024
Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Campbell, Matthew A., Zhu, Henan, Dennis, Tristan P., Modha, Sejal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-885X, Lytras, Spyros, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-5277 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2024)
A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus fossil record.
Genome Biology, 25(1),
120.
(doi: 10.1186/s13059-024-03258-y)
(PMID:38741126)
(PMCID:PMC11089739)
2023
Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Campbell, Matthew A., Zhu, Henan, Dennis, Tristan P.W., Modha, Sejal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-885X, Lytras, Spyros, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-5277 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2023)
A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus ‘fossil record’.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2023.10.17.562709)
Bautista, Criselda, Jaswant, Gurdeep, French, Hollie, Campbell, Kathryn, Durrant, Rowan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-2052, Gifford, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Kia, Grace S.N., Ogoti, Brian, Hampson, Katie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6884 and Brunker, Kirstyn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-6299
(2023)
Whole genome sequencing for rapid characterization of rabies virus using nanopore technology.
Journal of Visualized Experiments(191),
e65414.
(doi: 10.3791/65414)
(PMID:37677046)
Bravo, Angelica, Fernández-García, Leandro, Ibarra-Karmy, Rodrigo, Mardones, Gonzalo A., Mercado, Luis, Bustos, Fernando J., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Arriagada, Gloria
(2023)
Antiviral activity of an endogenous parvoviral element.
Viruses, 15(7),
1420.
(doi: 10.3390/v15071420)
(PMID:37515112)
(PMCID:PMC10384997)
Oliver, Michael R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-8416, Toon, Kamilla
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6795-4684, Lewis, Charlotte B., Devlin, Stephen, Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Grove, Joe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5390-7579
(2023)
Structures of the Hepaci-, Pegi-, and Pestiviruses envelope proteins suggest a novel membrane fusion mechanism.
PLoS Biology, 21(7),
e3002174.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002174)
(PMID:37432947)
(PMCID:PMC10335668)
Carrozza, Maria-Luisa, Niewiadomska, Anna-Maria, Mazzei, Maurizio, Abi-Said, Mounir R., Hue, Stephane, Hughes, Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-5277 and Gifford, Robert James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2023)
Emergence and pandemic spread of small ruminant lentiviruses.
Virus Evolution, 9(1),
vead005.
(doi: 10.1093/ve/vead005)
(PMID:36793939)
(PMCID:PMC9924038)
2022
Kambol, Roziah, Gatseva, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-5277 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2022)
An endogenous lentivirus in the germline of a rodent.
Retrovirology, 19,
30.
(doi: 10.1186/s12977-022-00615-2)
(PMID:36539757)
(PMCID:PMC9768972)
Campbell, Matthew A., Loncar, Shannon, Kotin, Robert M. and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2022)
Comparative analysis reveals the long-term coevolutionary history of parvoviruses and vertebrates.
PLoS Biology, 20(11),
e3001867.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001867)
(PMID:36445931)
(PMCID:PMC9707805)
Fernandes, L. P. et al. (2022) A satellite DNA array barcodes chromosome 7 and regulates totipotency via ZFP819. Science Advances, 8(43), eabp8085. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abp8085) (PMID:36306355) (PMCID:PMC9616502)
Shema Mugisha, Christian, Dinh, Tung, Kumar, Abhishek, Tenneti, Kasyap, Eschbach, Jenna E., Davis, Keanu, Gifford, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Kvaratskhelia, Mamuka and Kutluay, Sebla B.
(2022)
Emergence of compensatory mutations reveals the importance of electrostatic interactions between HIV-1 integrase and genomic RNA.
mBio, 13(5),
e0043122.
(doi: 10.1128/mbio.00431-22)
(PMID:35975921)
(PMCID:PMC9601147)
Campbell, Kathryn, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Singer, Joshua, Hill, Verity, O'Toole, Aine, Rambaut, Andrew, Hampson, Katie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6884 and Brunker, Kirstyn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-6299
(2022)
Making genomic surveillance deliver: a lineage classification and nomenclature system to inform rabies elimination.
PLoS Pathogens, 18(5),
e1010023.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010023)
(PMID:35500026)
(PMCID:PMC9162366)
Bamford, Connor G.G., de Souza, William M., Parry, Rhys and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2022)
Comparative analysis of genome-encoded viral sequences reveals the evolutionary history of flavivirids (family Flaviviridae).
Virus Evolution, 8(2),
veac085.
(doi: 10.1093/ve/veac085)
(PMID:36533146)
(PMCID:PMC9752770)
2021
Zafferani, M. et al. (2021) Amilorides inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro by targeting RNA structures. Science Advances, 7(48), eabl6096. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl6096) (PMID:34826236)
Parry, Rhys, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Lytras, Spyros, Ray, Stuart C. and Coin, Lachlan J.M.
(2021)
No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription and integration as the origin of chimeric transcripts in patient tissues.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(33),
e2109066118.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2109066118)
(PMID:34344759)
Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2021)
Mapping the evolution of bornaviruses across geological timescales.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(26),
e2108123118.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2108123118)
(PMID:34088856)
(PMCID:PMC8256053)
Lytras, Spyros, Arriagada, Gloria and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2021)
Ancient evolution of hepadnaviral paleoviruses and their impact on host genomes.
Virus Evolution, 7(1),
veab012.
(doi: 10.1093/ve/veab012)
(PMID:33747544)
(PMCID:PMC7955980)
2020
Konno, Y. et al. (2020) SARS-CoV-2 ORF3b is a potent interferon antagonist whose activity is increased by a naturally occurring elongation variant. Cell Reports, 32(12), 108185. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108185) (PMID:32941788) (PMCID:PMC7473339)
Hildebrandt, Evin, Penzes, Judit J., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Agbandje-Mckenna, Mavis and Kotin, Robert M.
(2020)
Evolution of dependoparvoviruses across geological timescales – implications for design of AAV-based gene therapy vectors.
Virus Evolution, 6(2),
veaa043.
(doi: 10.1093/ve/veaa043)
(PMID:32913662)
(PMCID:PMC7474932)
Sook Yuin Ho, J. et al. (2020) Hybrid gene origination creates human-virus chimeric proteins during infection. Cell, 181(7), 1502-1517.e23. (doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.035) (PMID:32559462) (PMCID:PMC7323901)
Brunker, K. et al. (2020) Rapid in-country sequencing of whole virus genomes to inform rabies elimination programmes. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 3. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15518.2) (PMID:32090172) (PMCID:PMC7001756)
Ito, Jumpei, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Sato, Kei
(2020)
Retroviruses drive the rapid evolution of mammalian APOBEC3 genes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(1),
pp. 610-618.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914183116)
(PMID:31843890)
(PMCID:PMC6955324)
2019
Hron, Tomas, Elleder, Daniel and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2019)
Deltaretroviruses infect a broad range of mammalian species and have circulated since the Paleogene.
Retrovirology, 16,
33.
(doi: 10.1186/s12977-019-0495-9)
(PMID:31775783)
(PMCID:PMC6882180)
Valencia-Herrera, Ignacio, Faunes, Fernando, Cena-Ahumada, Eduardo, Ibarra-Karmy, Rodrigo, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Arriagada, Gloria
(2019)
Molecular properties and evolutionary origins of a parvovirus-derived myosin fusion gene in guinea pigs.
Journal of Virology, 93(17),
e00404-19.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.00404-19)
(PMID:31217242)
Pénzes, Judit J., de Souza, William Marciel, Agbandje-McKenna, Mavis and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2019)
An ancient lineage of highly divergent parvoviruses infects both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts.
Viruses, 11(6),
525.
(doi: 10.3390/v11060525)
(PMID:31174309)
(PMCID:PMC6631224)
Schmidt, F. et al. (2019) Derivation of simian tropic HIV-1 infectious clone reveals virus adaptation to a new host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(21), pp. 10504-10509. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1818059116) (PMID:31048506) (PMCID:PMC6535013)
Singer, J. B. et al. (2019) Interpreting viral deep sequencing data with GLUE. Viruses, 11(4), 323. (doi: 10.3390/v11040323) (PMID:30987147) (PMCID:PMC6520954)
Callaway, Heather M., Subramanian, Suriyasri, Urbina, Christian, Barnard, Karen, Dick, Robert, Bator, Carol M., Hafentein, Susan L., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Parrish, Colin R.
(2019)
Examination and reconstruction of three ancient endogenous parvovirus capsid protein gene remnants found in rodent genomes.
Journal of Virology, 93(6),
e01542-18.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.01542-18)
(PMID:30626673)
(PMCID:PMC6401472)
Halo, Julia V., Pendleton, Amanda L., Jarosz, Abigail S., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Day, Malika L. and Kidd, Jeffrey M.
(2019)
Origin and recent expansion of an endogenous gammaretroviral lineage in domestic and wild canids.
Retrovirology, 16,
6.
(doi: 10.1186/s12977-019-0468-z)
(PMID:30845962)
(PMCID:PMC6407205)
Dennis, Tristan P.W., Souza, William Marciel de, Marsile-Medun, Soledad, Singer, Joshua B., Wilson, Sam J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6065-0895 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2019)
The evolution, distribution and diversity of endogenous circoviral elements in vertebrate genomes.
Virus Research, 262,
pp. 15-23.
(doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2018.03.014)
(PMID:29601845)
(PMCID:PMC6372831)
2018
Singer, Joshua B., Thomson, Emma C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-0889, McLauchlan, John
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2217-9948, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2018)
GLUE: a flexible software system for virus sequence data.
BMC Bioinformatics, 19,
532.
(doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2459-9)
(PMID:30563445)
(PMCID:PMC6299651)
Zhu, Henan, Gifford, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Murcia, Pablo Ramiro
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4352-394X
(2018)
Distribution, diversity and evolution of endogenous retroviruses in perissodactyl genomes.
Journal of Virology, 92(23),
e00927-18.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.00927-18)
(PMID:30209175)
(PMCID:PMC6232481)
Tie, C. H.C. et al. (2018) KAP1 regulates endogenous retroviruses in adult human cells and contributes to innate immune control. EMBO Reports, 19(10), e45000. (doi: 10.15252/embr.201745000) (PMID:30061100) (PMCID:PMC6172469)
Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Blomberg, Jonas, Coffin, John M., Fan, Hugh, Heidmann, Thierry, Mayer, Jens, Stoye, Jonathan, Tristem, Michael and Johnson, Welkin E.
(2018)
Nomenclature for endogenous retrovirus (ERV) loci.
Retrovirology, 15,
59.
(doi: 10.1186/s12977-018-0442-1)
(PMID:30153831)
(PMCID:PMC6114882)
Dennis, Tristan P.W., Flynn, Peter J., Souza, William Marciel de, Singer, Joshua B., Moreau, Corrie S., Wilson, Sam J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6065-0895 and Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2018)
Insights into circovirus host range from the genomic fossil record.
Journal of Virology, 92(16),
e00145-18.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.00145-18)
(PMID:29875243)
(PMCID:PMC6069186)
Pénzes, Judit J., Marsile-Medun, Soledad, Agbandje-McKenna, Mavis and Gifford, Robert James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2018)
Endogenous amdoparvovirus-related elements reveal insights into the biology and evolution of vertebrate parvoviruses.
Virus Evolution, 4(2),
vey026.
(doi: 10.1093/ve/vey026)
(PMID:30443409)
(PMCID:PMC6232428)
Cowton, Vanessa M., Singer, Joshua B., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Patel, Arvind H.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4600-2047
(2018)
Predicting the effectiveness of hepatitis C virus neutralizing antibodies by bioinformatic analysis of conserved epitope residues using public sequence data.
Frontiers in Immunology, 9,
1470.
(doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01470)
(PMID:30013555)
(PMCID:PMC6036255)
Krupovic, M. et al. (2018) Ortervirales: a new viral order unifying five families of reverse-transcribing viruses. Journal of Virology, 92(12), e00515-18. (doi: 10.1128/JVI.00515-18) (PMID:29618642)
Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Bieniasz, Paul D.
(2018)
Reconstruction of a replication-competent ancestral murine endogenous retrovirus-L.
Retrovirology, 15,
34.
(doi: 10.1186/s12977-018-0416-3)
(PMID:29716624)
(PMCID:PMC5930517)
Hron, Tomáš, Farkašová, Helena, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Benda, Petr, Hulva, Pavel, Görföl, Tamás, Pačes, Jan and Elleder, Daniel
(2018)
Remnants of an ancient deltaretrovirus in the genomes of horseshoe aats (Rhinolophidae).
Viruses, 10(4),
185.
(doi: 10.3390/v10040185)
(PMID:29642581)
(PMCID:PMC5923479)
de Souza, W. M. et al. (2018) Novel parvoviruses from wild and domestic animals in Brazil provide new insights into parvovirus distribution and diversity. Viruses, 10(4), 143. (doi: 10.3390/v10040143) (PMID:29565808) (PMCID:PMC5923437)
2017
Shaw, A. E. et al. (2017) Fundamental properties of the mammalian innate immune system revealed by multispecies comparison of type I interferon responses. PLoS Biology, 15(12), e2004086. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004086) (PMID:29253856) (PMCID:PMC574750)
Niebel, Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2515-6151, Singer, Joshua B., Nickbakhsh, Sema
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9543-7536, Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Thomson, Emma C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-0889
(2017)
Hepatitis C and the absence of genomic data in low-income countries: a barrier on the road to elimination?
Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2(10),
pp. 700-701.
(doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30257-1)
(PMID:28895545)
Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Bieniasz, Paul D.
(2017)
Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus envelope for host defense in hominid ancestors.
eLife, 6,
e22519.
(doi: 10.7554/eLife.22519)
(PMID:28397686)
(PMCID:PMC5388530)
Farkašová, Helena, Hron, Tomáš, Pačes, Jan, Hulva, Pavel, Benda, Petr, Gifford, Robert James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Elleder, Daniel
(2017)
Discovery of an endogenous Deltaretrovirus in the genome of long-fingered bats (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(12),
pp. 3145-3150.
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1621224114)
(PMID:28280099)
(PMCID:PMC5373376)
Henzy, Jamie E., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Kenaley, Christopher P. and Johnson, Welkin E.
(2017)
An intact retroviral gene conserved in spiny-rayed fishes for over 100 My.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(3),
pp. 634-639.
(doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw262)
(PMID:28039384)
de Souza, William Marciel, Romeiro, Marilia Farignoli, Modha, Sejal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-885X, de Araujo, Jansen, Queiroz, Luzia Helena, Durigon, Edison Luiz, Moraes Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu, Murcia, Pablo Ramiro
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4352-394X and Gifford, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2017)
Chapparvoviruses occur in at least three vertebrate classes and have a broad biogeographic distribution.
Journal of General Virology, 98(2),
pp. 225-229.
(doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000671)
(PMID:28284244)
(PMCID:PMC5646239)
2016
Jacobs, M. et al. (2016) Late Ebola virus relapse causing meningoencephalitis: a case report. Lancet, 388(10043), pp. 498-503. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30386-5) (PMID:27209148) (PMCID:PMC4967715)
Wu, H. L. et al. (2016) Identification and spontaneous immune targeting of an endogenous retrovirus K envelope protein in the Indian rhesus macaque model of human disease. Retrovirology, 13, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s12977-016-0238-0) (PMID:26767784) (PMCID:PMC4714462)
2015
Ng, M. et al. (2015) Filovirus receptor NPC1 contributes to species-specific patterns of ebolavirus susceptibility in bats. eLife, 4, e11785. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.11785) (PMID:26698106) (PMCID:PMC4709267)
2014
Henzy, J.E., Gifford, R.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Johnson, W.E. and Coffin, J. M.
(2014)
A novel recombinant retrovirus in the genomes of modern birds combines features of avian and mammalian retroviruses.
Journal of Virology, 88(5),
pp. 2398-2405.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.02863-13)
Arriagada, Gloria and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2014)
Parvovirus-derived endogenous viral elements in two South American rodent genomes.
Journal of Virology, 89(20),
pp. 12158-12162.
(doi: 10.1128/JVI.01173-14)
(PMID:25078696)
Katzourakis, Aris, Magiorkinis, Gkikas, Lim, Aaron G., Gupta, Sunetra, Belshaw, Robert and Gifford, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2014)
Larger mammalian body size leads to lower retroviral activity.
PLoS Pathogens, 10(7),
e1004214.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004214)
2013
Niewiadomska, A.M. and Gifford, R.J. (2013) The extraordinary evolutionary history of the reticuloendotheliosis viruses. PLoS Biology, 11(8), e1001642. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001642)
Rihn, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9495-4056, Wilson, S.J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6065-0895, Loman, N.J., Alim, M., Bakker, S.E., Bhella, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2096-8310, Gifford, R.J., Rixon, F.J. and Bieniasz, P.D.
(2013)
Extreme genetic fragility of the HIV-1 capsid.
PLoS Pathogens, 9(6),
e1003461.
(doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003461)
(PMID:23818857)
(PMCID:PMC3688543)
2012
Magiorkinis, G., Gifford, R.J., Katzourakis, A., De Ranter, J. and Belshaw, R. (2012) Env-less endogenous retroviruses are genomic superspreaders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), pp. 7385-7390. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200913109)
2009
Katzourakis, A., Gifford, R.J., Tristem, M., Gilbert, M.T.P. and Pybus, O.G. (2009) Macroevolution of complex retroviruses. Science, 325(5947), p. 1512. (doi: 10.1126/science.1174149)
2008
Gifford, R.J., Katzourakis, A., Tristem, M., Pybus, O.G., Winters, M. and Shafer, R.W. (2008) A transitional endogenous lentivirus from the genome of a basal primate and implications for lentivirus evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(51), pp. 20362-20367. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807873105)
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Pervasive horizontal transfer of adeno-associated virus capsid genes.
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Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Campbell, Matthew A., Zhu, Henan, Dennis, Tristan P., Modha, Sejal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-885X, Lytras, Spyros, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
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A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus fossil record.
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Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Campbell, Matthew A., Zhu, Henan, Dennis, Tristan P.W., Modha, Sejal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-885X, Lytras, Spyros, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
(2023)
A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus ‘fossil record’.
bioRxiv,
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Bautista, Criselda, Jaswant, Gurdeep, French, Hollie, Campbell, Kathryn, Durrant, Rowan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-2052, Gifford, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Kia, Grace S.N., Ogoti, Brian, Hampson, Katie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-6884 and Brunker, Kirstyn
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Whole genome sequencing for rapid characterization of rabies virus using nanopore technology.
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Bravo, Angelica, Fernández-García, Leandro, Ibarra-Karmy, Rodrigo, Mardones, Gonzalo A., Mercado, Luis, Bustos, Fernando J., Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Arriagada, Gloria
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Antiviral activity of an endogenous parvoviral element.
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Oliver, Michael R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-8416, Toon, Kamilla
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5390-7579
(2023)
Structures of the Hepaci-, Pegi-, and Pestiviruses envelope proteins suggest a novel membrane fusion mechanism.
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Carrozza, Maria-Luisa, Niewiadomska, Anna-Maria, Mazzei, Maurizio, Abi-Said, Mounir R., Hue, Stephane, Hughes, Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gatseva, Anna
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Emergence and pandemic spread of small ruminant lentiviruses.
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Kambol, Roziah, Gatseva, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-5277 and Gifford, Robert J.
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An endogenous lentivirus in the germline of a rodent.
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Campbell, Matthew A., Loncar, Shannon, Kotin, Robert M. and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
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Comparative analysis reveals the long-term coevolutionary history of parvoviruses and vertebrates.
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Emergence of compensatory mutations reveals the importance of electrostatic interactions between HIV-1 integrase and genomic RNA.
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Campbell, Kathryn, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Singer, Joshua, Hill, Verity, O'Toole, Aine, Rambaut, Andrew, Hampson, Katie
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Making genomic surveillance deliver: a lineage classification and nomenclature system to inform rabies elimination.
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Bamford, Connor G.G., de Souza, William M., Parry, Rhys and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
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Comparative analysis of genome-encoded viral sequences reveals the evolutionary history of flavivirids (family Flaviviridae).
Virus Evolution, 8(2),
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No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription and integration as the origin of chimeric transcripts in patient tissues.
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Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
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Mapping the evolution of bornaviruses across geological timescales.
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Lytras, Spyros, Arriagada, Gloria and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
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Ancient evolution of hepadnaviral paleoviruses and their impact on host genomes.
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Evolution of dependoparvoviruses across geological timescales – implications for design of AAV-based gene therapy vectors.
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Ito, Jumpei, Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884 and Sato, Kei
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Retroviruses drive the rapid evolution of mammalian APOBEC3 genes.
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Hron, Tomas, Elleder, Daniel and Gifford, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884
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Deltaretroviruses infect a broad range of mammalian species and have circulated since the Paleogene.
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Molecular properties and evolutionary origins of a parvovirus-derived myosin fusion gene in guinea pigs.
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An ancient lineage of highly divergent parvoviruses infects both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts.
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Examination and reconstruction of three ancient endogenous parvovirus capsid protein gene remnants found in rodent genomes.
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The evolution, distribution and diversity of endogenous circoviral elements in vertebrate genomes.
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GLUE: a flexible software system for virus sequence data.
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Distribution, diversity and evolution of endogenous retroviruses in perissodactyl genomes.
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Nomenclature for endogenous retrovirus (ERV) loci.
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Insights into circovirus host range from the genomic fossil record.
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Endogenous amdoparvovirus-related elements reveal insights into the biology and evolution of vertebrate parvoviruses.
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Predicting the effectiveness of hepatitis C virus neutralizing antibodies by bioinformatic analysis of conserved epitope residues using public sequence data.
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Reconstruction of a replication-competent ancestral murine endogenous retrovirus-L.
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Hepatitis C and the absence of genomic data in low-income countries: a barrier on the road to elimination?
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Discovery of an endogenous Deltaretrovirus in the genome of long-fingered bats (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae).
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An intact retroviral gene conserved in spiny-rayed fishes for over 100 My.
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Wright, Derek W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0411-4497, Mojsiejczuk, Laura, Hughes, Joseph J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gifford, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Robertson, David L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-0221, Goldhill, Daniel and Hutchinson, Edward C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-9096
(2025)
Interactive Visualisation of Influenza Phylogenetics with Dynamic Query Integration and Identification of Mammalian Adaptations.
RSS International Conference 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland, 01-04 September 2025.
Wright, Derek W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0411-4497, Mojsiejczuk, Laura, Mukaddas, Afrida, Hughes, Joseph
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2563, Gifford, Robert J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-9884, Robertson, David L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6338-0221, Goldhill, Daniel and Hutchinson, Edward C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-9096
(2025)
Interactive Visualisation of Influenza Phylogenetics with Dynamic Query Integration and Identification of Mammalian Adaptations.
15th International Meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2025), Cambridge, UK, 08-11 April 2025.