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Synonymous site variation due to recombination explains higher genetic variability in begomovirus populations infecting non-cultivated hosts.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Feb 2013
Lima Alison T M, Sobrinho Roberto R, González-Aguilera Jorge, Rocha Carolina S, Silva Sarah J C, Xavier César A D, Silva Fábio N, Duffy Siobain, Zerbini F Murilo
Abstract excerpt
Begomoviruses are ssDNA plant viruses that cause serious epidemics in economically important crops worldwide. Non-cultivated plants also harbour many begomoviruses, and it is believed that these hosts may act as reservoirs and as mixing vessels where recombination may occur. Begomoviruses are notoriously recombination-prone, and also display nucleotide substitution rates equivalent to those of RNA viruses. In...
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