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SUBMITTER: Silva JMF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6410062 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva João Marcos Fagundes JMF de Oliveira Athos Silva AS de Almeida Mariana Martins Severo MMS Kormelink Richard R Nagata Tatsuya T Resende Renato Oliveira RO
Viruses 20190222 2
Tomato chlorotic spot virus (TCSV) and groundnut ringspot virus (GRSV) share several genetic and biological traits. Both of them belong to the genus <i>Tospovirus</i> (family <i>Peribunyaviridae</i>), which is composed by viruses with tripartite RNA genome that infect plants and are transmitted by thrips (order Thysanoptera). Previous studies have suggested several reassortment events between these two viruses, and some speculated that they may share one of their genomic segments. To better unde ...[more]