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Population structure of blueberry mosaic associated virus: Evidence of reassortment in geographically distinct isolates.
Virus research - 2 Apr 2015
Thekke-Veetil Thanuja, Polashock James J, Marn Mojca V, Plesko Irena M, Schilder Annemiek C, Keller Karen E, Martin Robert R, Tzanetakis Ioannis E
Abstract excerpt
The population structure of blueberry mosaic associated virus (BlMaV), a putative member of the family Ophioviridae, was examined using 61 isolates collected from North America and Slovenia. The studied isolates displayed low diversity in the movement and nucleocapsid proteins and low ratios of non-synonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitutions, indicative of strong purifying selection. Phylogenetic analyses...
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