Molecular features of new Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid variants suggest that recombination may have contributed to the evolution of this infectious RNA

Virology

Volumn 360, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-57

  Fekih Hassen, I ^a,b   Massart, S ^a   Motard, J ^c   Roussel, S ^a   Parisi, O ^a   Kummert, J ^a   Fakhfakh, H ^b   Marrakchi, M ^b   Perreault, J P ^c   Jijakli, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hammerhead self cleavage; Recombination; Secondary structure; Sequence variation; Viroid

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEACH LATENT MOSAIC VIROID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUNISIA; VIROID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAIC VIRUSES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANT DISEASES; PRUNUS; RNA, VIRAL; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIROIDS;

PEACH LATENT MOSAIC VIROID; PRUNUS DULCIS; PRUNUS PERSICA; PYRUS; VIROIDS;

EID: 33847357869     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.10.021     Document Type: Article

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