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 …

Highlights•Recombination is inherent to the geminivirus replication process.•Recombination
is adaptive in the family, allowing for host shifts and increased host ranges.•Recombination …

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 …

The geminiviruses are a unique group of infectious agents that replicate and cause disease
in a wide variety of plant species, including many of agricultural importance. In addition to …

Geminiviruses and their satellites have circular single stranded DNA genomes, infecting
many crops and weeds across the globe. To successfully invade new hosts, break host …

Viruses constitute the largest group of emerging pathogens, and geminiviruses (plant
viruses with circular, single-stranded DNA genomes) are the major group of emerging plant …

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 …

Geminiviruses (Geminiviridae) are a diverse group of plant viruses differing from other
known plant viruses in possessing circular, single-stranded DNA. Current classification …

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 …

The majority of plant-infecting viruses utilize an RNA genome, suggesting that plants have
imposed strict constraints on the evolution of DNA viruses. The geminiviruses represent a …