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SUBMITTER: Shackelton LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3326350 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shackelton Laura A LA Hoelzer Karin K Parrish Colin R CR Holmes Edward C EC
The Journal of general virology 20071201 Pt 12
Parvoviruses are small single-stranded DNA viruses that are ubiquitous in nature. Infections with both autonomous and helper-virus dependent parvoviruses are common in both human and animal populations, and many animals are host to a number of different parvoviral species. Despite the epidemiological importance of parvoviruses, the presence and role of genome recombination within or among parvoviral species has not been well characterized. Here we show that natural recombination may be widesprea ...[more]