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Badnaviruses and banana genomes: a long association sheds light on Musa phylogeny and origin
24 Nov 2020
Abstract excerpt
Badnaviruses are double-stranded DNA pararetroviruses of the family Caulimoviridae. Badnaviral sequences found in banana are distributed over three main clades of the genus Badnavirus and exhibit wide genetic diversity. Interestingly, the nuclear genome of many plants, including banana, is invaded by numerous badnaviral sequences although badnaviruses do not require an integration step to replicate, unlike animal...
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