Phylogenetic analysis of some large double-stranded RNA replicons from plants suggests they evolved from a defective single-stranded RNA virus.
Date
2000
Authors
Gibbs, Mark
Koga, Ryuichi
Moriyama, Hiromitsu
Pfeiffer, Pierre
Fukuhara, Toshiyuki
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Society for General Microbiology
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Sequences were recently obtained from four double-stranded (ds) RNAs from different plant species. These dsRNAs are not associated with particles and as they appeared not to be horizontally transmitted, they were thought to be a kind of RNA plasmid. Here
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Keywords: double stranded RNA; helicase; RNA directed RNA polymerase; virus RNA; article; defective virus; evolution; phylogeny; priority journal; replicon; virus classification; virus gene; virus genome; Defective Viruses; Evolution, Molecular; Phylogeny; Plant Vi
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Journal of General Virology
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