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Rice yellow mottle virus, an RNA plant virus, evolves as rapidly as most RNA animal viruses.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 2008
Fargette D, Pinel A, Rakotomalala M, Sangu E, Traoré O, Sérémé D, Sorho F, Issaka S, Hébrard E, Séré Y, Kanyeka Z, Konaté G
Abstract excerpt
The rate of evolution of an RNA plant virus has never been estimated using temporally spaced sequence data, by contrast to the information available on an increasing range of animal viruses. Accordingly, the evolution rate of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) was calculated from sequences of the coat protein gene of isolates collected from rice over a 40-year period in different parts of Africa. The evolution rate...
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