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Molecular characterization of banana virus X (BVX), a novel member of the Flexiviridae family.
Archives of virology - 1 Sept 2005
Teycheney P-Y, Marais A, Svanella-Dumas L, Dulucq M-J, Candresse T
Abstract excerpt
A novel virus was identified in banana (Musa spp). Analysis of the last 2917 nucleotides of its positive strand genomic RNA showed five open reading frames corresponding, from 5' to 3', to a truncated ORF coding for a replication-associated protein, three ORFs coding for a movement-associated triple gene block (TGB) and a capsid protein (CP) gene. This genome organization is similar to that of some members of the...
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