The population genomics of begomoviruses: global scale population structure and gene flow.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rapidly growing availability of diverse full genome sequences from across the world is increasing the feasibility of studying the large-scale population processes that underly observable pattern of virus diversity. In particular, characterizing the genetic structure of virus populations could potentially reveal much about how factors such as geographical distributions, host ranges and gene flow between populations combine to produce the discontinuous patterns of genetic diversity that we perceive as distinct virus species. Among the richest and most diverse full genome datasets that are available is that for the dicotyledonous plant infecting genus, Begomovirus, in the Family Geminiviridae. The begomoviruses all share the same whitefly vector, are highly recombinogen

SUBMITTER: Prasanna HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2945956 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature