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Establishment of three new genera in the family Geminiviridae: Becurtovirus, Er...
Zerbini, F. Murilo; Varsani, Arvind; Navas-Castillo, Jesús; Moriones, Enrique; Hernández-Zepeda, Cecilia; Idris, Ali; Brown, Judith K.The family Geminiviridae includes plant-infecting circular single-stranded DNA viruses that have geminate particle morphology. Members of this family infect both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants and have a nearly global distribution. With the advent of new molecular tools and low-cost sequencing, there has been a significant increase in the discovery of new geminiviruses in various cultivated and non-...
Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons
Zerbini, F. Murilo; Brown, Judith K.; Navas-Castillo, Jesús; Moriones, Enrique; Ramos-Sobrinho, Roberto; Silva, José C. F.; Fiallo-Olivé, ElviraViruses of the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae) are emergent pathogens of crops throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. By virtue of having a small DNA genome that is easily cloned, and due to the recent innovations in cloning and low-cost sequencing, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of available begomovirus genome sequences. Even so, most of the available sequences...
Revisiting the classification of curtoviruses based on genome-wide pairwise ide...
Zerbini, F. Murilo; Varsani, Arvind; Martin, Darren P.; Navas-Castillo, Jesús; Moriones, Enrique; Hernández-Zepeda, Cecilia; Idris, AliMembers of the genus Curtovirus (family Geminiviridae) are important pathogens of many wild and cultivated plant species. Until recently, relatively few full curtovirus genomes have been characterised. However, with the 19 full genome sequences now available in public databases, we revisit the proposed curtovirus species and strain classification criteria. Using pairwise identities coupled with phylogenetic evi...