Rymovirus: a cautionary tale

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Gibbs, Adrian
Gibbs, Mark J

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Springer

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A recent proposal that the genus Rymovirus be assimilated into the genus Potyvirus is examined, discussed, and rejected. It illustrates the danger of using ‘sequence identity’ as a proxy for phylogenetic relatedness to distinguish closely related but distinct groups of viruses.

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Archives of Virology

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2039-12-31