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A complete ancient RNA genome: identification, reconstruction and evolutionary history of archaeological Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus.
Scientific reports - 6 Feb 2014
Smith Oliver, Clapham Alan, Rose Pam, Liu Yuan, Wang Jun, Allaby Robin G
Abstract excerpt
The origins of many plant diseases appear to be recent and associated with the rise of domestication, the spread of agriculture or recent global movements of crops. Distinguishing between these possibilities is problematic because of the difficulty of determining rates of molecular evolution over short time frames. Heterochronous approaches using recent and historical samples show that plant viruses exhibit...
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