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The hallmarks of "green" viruses: do plant viruses evolve differently from the others?
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2011
Desbiez C, Moury B, Lecoq H
Abstract excerpt
All viruses are obligatory parasites that must develop tight interactions with their hosts to complete their infectious cycle. Viruses infecting plants share many structural and functional similarities with those infecting other organisms, particularly animals and fungi. Quantitative data regarding their evolutionary mechanisms--generation of variability by mutation and recombination, changes in populations by...
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