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Recombination hotspots and host susceptibility modulate the adaptive value of recombination during maize streak virus evolution.
BMC evolutionary biology - 2 Dec 2011
Monjane Adérito L, van der Walt Eric, Varsani Arvind, Rybicki Edward P, Martin Darren P
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BACKGROUND: Maize streak virus -strain A (MSV-A; Genus Mastrevirus, Family Geminiviridae), the maize-adapted strain of MSV that causes maize streak disease throughout sub-Saharan Africa, probably arose between 100 and 200 years ago via homologous recombination between two MSV strains adapted to wild grasses. MSV recombination experiments and analyses of natural MSV recombination patterns have revealed that this...
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