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Viroid quasispecies revealed by deep sequencing.
RNA biology - 4 Mar 2017
Brass Joseph R J, Owens Robert A, Matoušek Jaroslav, Steger Gerhard
Abstract excerpt
Viroids are non-coding single-stranded circular RNA molecules that replicate autonomously in infected host plants causing mild to lethal symptoms. Their genomes contain about 250-400 nucleotides, depending on viroid species. Members of the family Pospiviroidae, like the Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), replicate via an asymmetric rolling-circle mechanism using the host DNA-dependent RNA-Polymerase II in the...
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