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Extremely high mutation rate of a hammerhead viroid.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 6 Mar 2009
Gago Selma, Elena Santiago F, Flores Ricardo, Sanjuán Rafael
Abstract excerpt
The mutation rates of viroids, plant pathogens with minimal non-protein-coding RNA genomes, are unknown. Their replication is mediated by host RNA polymerases and, in some cases, by hammerhead ribozymes, small self-cleaving motifs embedded in the viroid. By using the principle that the population...
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