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SUBMITTER: Lopez-Carrasco A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5614642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
López-Carrasco Amparo A Ballesteros Cristina C Sentandreu Vicente V Delgado Sonia S Gago-Zachert Selma S Flores Ricardo R Sanjuán Rafael R
PLoS pathogens 20170914 9
Mutation rates vary by orders of magnitude across biological systems, being higher for simpler genomes. The simplest known genomes correspond to viroids, subviral plant replicons constituted by circular non-coding RNAs of few hundred bases. Previous work has revealed an extremely high mutation rate for chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid, a chloroplast-replicating viroid. However, whether this is a general feature of viroids remains unclear. Here, we have used high-fidelity ultra-deep sequenci ...[more]