Recombination has an evident impact on virus evolution and emergence of new pathotypes,
and has generated an immense literature. However, the distribution of phenotypic effects …

With the development of reliable recombination detection tools and an increasing number of
available genome sequences, many studies have reported evidence of recombination in a …

Genetic recombination is an important process during the evolution of many virus species
and occurs particularly frequently amongst begomoviruses in the single stranded DNA virus …

Mutation, recombination and pseudo-recombination are the major forces driving the
evolution of viruses by the generation of variants upon which natural selection, genetic drift …

Background Tomato-infecting begomoviruses are widely distributed across the world and
cause diseases of high economic impact on wide range of agriculturally important crops …

Although exchange of genetic information by recombination plays a role in the evolution of
viruses, the extent to which it generates diversity is not clear. We analyzed genomes of …

Begomoviruses (single-stranded DNA plant viruses) are responsible for serious agricultural
threats. Begomovirus populations exhibit a high degree of within-host genetic variation and …

Viral recombination can dramatically impact evolution and epidemiology. In viruses, the
recombination rate depends on the frequency of genetic exchange between different viral …

Single-stranded DNA multipartite viruses, which mostly consist of members of the genus
Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae, and all members of the family Nanoviridae, partly …

Multipartite viruses contain more than one distinctive genome component, and the origin of
multipartite viruses has been suggested to evolve from a non-segmented wild-type virus. To …