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SUBMITTER: Duffy S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2880110 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duffy Siobain S Seah Yee Mey YM
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20100601 1548
Short-form publications such as Plant Disease reports serve essential functions: the rapid dissemination of information on the geography of established plant pathogens, incidence and symptomology of pathogens in new hosts, and the discovery of novel pathogens. Many of these sentinel publications include viral sequence data, but most use that information only to confirm the virus' species. When researchers use the standard technique of per cent nucleotide identity to determine that the new sequen ...[more]