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East African cassava mosaic-like viruses from Africa to Indian ocean islands: molecular diversity, evolutionary history and geographical dissemination of a bipartite begomovirus

Author: De Bruyn, Alexandre ; Villemot, Julie ; Lefeuvre, Pierre ; Villar, Emilie ; Hoareau, Murielle ; Harimalala, Mireille ; Abdoul-Karime, Anli ; Abdou-Chakour, Chadhouliati ; Reynaud, Bernard ; Harkins, Gordon ; Varsani, Arvind ; Martin, Darren ; Lett, Jean-Michel Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a major food source for over 200 million sub-Saharan Africans. Unfortunately, its cultivation is severely hampered by cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Caused by a complex of bipartite cassava mosaic ... Read more c b
Experimental evidence indicating that mastreviruses probably did not co-diverge with their hosts

Author: Harkins, Gordon ; Delport, Wayne ; Duffy, Siobain ; Wood, Natasha ; Monjane, Aderito ; Owor, Betty ; Donaldson, Lara ; Saumtally, Salem ; Triton, Guy ; Briddon, Rob ; Shepherd, Dionne ; Rybicki, Edward ; Martin, Darren ; Varsani, Arvind Date: 2009 BACKGROUND:Despite the demonstration that geminiviruses, like many other single stranded DNA viruses, are evolving at rates similar to those of RNA viruses, a recent study has suggested that grass-infecting species in the genus Mastrevirus ... Read more c b
The influence of secondary structure, selection and recombination on rubella virus nucleotide substitution rate estimates

Author: Cloete, Leendert ; Tanov, Emil ; Muhire, Brejnev ; Martin, Darren ; Harkins, Gordon Date: 2014 BACKGROUND: Annually, rubella virus (RV) still causes severe congenital defects in around 100 000 children globally. An attempt to eradicate RV is currently underway and analytical tools to monitor the global decline of the last remaining RV ... Read more c b
The spread of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus from the Middle East to the world

Author: Lefeuvre, Pierre ; Martin, Darren P ; Harkins, Gordon ; Lemey, Philippe ; Gray, Alistair J A ; Meredith, Sandra ; Lakay, Francisco ; Monjane, Adérito ; Lett, Jean-Michel ; Varsani, Arvind Date: 2010 Author Summary Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) poses a serious threat to tomato production throughout the temperate regions of the world. Our analysis, using a suite of bioinformatic tools applied to all publically available TYLCV genome ... Read more c b

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