Publications

1. DeFilippis, V.R., F.J. Ayala, and L.P. Villarreal. Codon based genealogical analysis detects positive natural selection operating on human papillomavirus type 16 E6 but not E7 oncogenes. (Submitted to the Molecular Biology and Evolution)
   
2. DeFilippis, V.R. and L.P. Villarreal. (in press) Virus Evolution. Chapter 13 In Fields Virology, fourth edition.
3. Villarreal, L.P. and V.R. DeFilippis. 2000. A hypothesis for DNA viruses as the origin of eukaryotic replication proteins. J. Virology 74:7079-7084.
4. Villarreal, L.P., V.R. DeFilippis, and K.A. Gottleib. 2000. Acute and persistent viral life strategies and their relationship to emerging diseases. Virology 272(1):1-6.
5. DeFilippis, V.R. and L.P. Villarreal. 2000. An introduction to the evolutionary ecology of viruses. Pp. 125-208 In Viral Ecology (C.J. Hurst, editor) Academic Press, San Diego.
6. DeFilippis, V.R., and W.S. Moore. 2000. Resolution of phylogenetic relationships among recently evolved species as a function of amount of DNA sequence: An empirical study based on woodpeckers (Aves: Picidae). Mol. Phy. Evol. 16(1):143-160.
7. Moore, W.S., and V.R. DeFilippis. 1997. The window of taxonomic resolution for avian phylogenies based on mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences. In Avian molecular evolution and sytematics (ed. D.P. Mindell), pp. 83-119. Academic Press.