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The common evolutionary history of badnaviruses and banana.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2014
Iskra-Caruana Marie-Line, Duroy Pierre-Olivier, Chabannes Matthieu, Muller Emmanuelle
Abstract excerpt
Recent plant genome sequencing efforts have revealed myriad viral sequences suggesting a cryptic interaction between both partners. Interestingly, no integration step has ever been reported as an obligatory step in the life cycle of plant viruses. Circular dsDNA viruses belonging to the family Caulimoviridae are the most abundant among integrated plant viral sequences. In this review, we describe how this...
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