During a large scale “non a priori” survey in 2010 of South African plant-infecting single
stranded DNA viruses, a highly divergent geminivirus genome was isolated from a wild …

This paper provides an overview of current research on geminiviruses (members of the
family Geminiviridae), including the study of the complex interaction among viral proteins …

During the last few years there has been some confusion among geminivirologists about
how to determine the taxonomic status of a geminivirus and provide appropriate names for …

Amino acid sequences of 16 geminivirus replication-associated proteins and 15 coat
proteins were aligned and a new computer program was used to calculate the minimum …

The complete nucleotide sequence (3080 nt) of an infectious DNA clone derived from the
geminivirus horseradish curly top virus (HrCTV) has been determined. The relationship of …

Background Viruses of the genus Begomovirus (Geminiviridae) are emerging economically
important plant viruses with a circular, single-stranded DNA genome. Previous studies have …

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 …

Background We have characterised a new highly divergent geminivirus species, Eragrostis
curvula streak virus (ECSV), found infecting a hardy perennial South African wild grass …

The genomes and ORFs of 36 geminiviruses were compared to obtain phylogenetic trees
and frequency distributions of all possible pairwise comparisons with an objective to classify …

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 …