{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["5"],"submitter":["Geering AD"],"pubmed_abstract":["The extent and importance of endogenous viral elements have been extensively described in animals but are much less well understood in plants. Here we describe a new genus of Caulimoviridae called 'Florendovirus', members of which have colonized the genomes of a large diversity of flowering plants, sometimes at very high copy numbers (>0.5% total genome content). The genome invasion of Oryza is dated to over 1.8 million years ago (MYA) but phylogeographic evidence points to an even older age of 20-34 MYA for this virus group. Some appear to have had a bipartite genome organization, a unique characteristic among viral retroelements. In Vitis vinifera, 9% of the endogenous florendovirus loci are located within introns and therefore may influence host gene expression. The frequent colocation "],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["5269"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4241990"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Endogenous florendoviruses are major components of plant genomes and hallmarks of virus evolution."],"pmcid":["PMC4241990"],"pubmed_authors":["Zwickl DJ","Choisne N","McTaggart AR","Teycheney PY","Maumus F","Scalabrin S","Vezzulli S","Geering AD","Copetti D","Zytnicki M","Wing RA","Quesneville H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Endogenous florendoviruses are major components of plant genomes and hallmarks of virus evolution.","description":"The extent and importance of endogenous viral elements have been extensively described in animals but are much less well understood in plants. Here we describe a new genus of Caulimoviridae called 'Florendovirus', members of which have colonized the genomes of a large diversity of flowering plants, sometimes at very high copy numbers (>0.5% total genome content). The genome invasion of Oryza is dated to over 1.8 million years ago (MYA) but phylogeographic evidence points to an even older age of 20-34 MYA for this virus group. Some appear to have had a bipartite genome organization, a unique characteristic among viral retroelements. In Vitis vinifera, 9% of the endogenous florendovirus loci are located within introns and therefore may influence host gene expression. The frequent colocation ","dates":{"release":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2014 Nov","modification":"2026-05-04T00:56:49.268Z","creation":"2026-04-07T19:51:50.809Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4241990","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25381880"],"doi":["10.1038/ncomms6269"]}}