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Mutational bias of Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus in the context of host anti-viral gene silencing.
Virology - 1 Dec 2015
Ma Jinmin, Pallett Denise, Jiang Hui, Hou Yong, Wang Hui
Abstract excerpt
Plant Dicer-like (DCL) enzymes exhibit a GC-preference during anti-viral post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), delivering an evolutionary selection pressure resulting in plant viruses with GC-poor genomes. However, some viruses, e.g. Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus (TYMV, genus Tymovirus) have GC-rich genomes, raising the question as to whether or not DCL derived selection pressure affects these viruses. In this...
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