Recombination occurs in many RNA viruses and can be of major evolutionary significance.
However, rates of recombination vary dramatically among RNA viruses, which can range …

Since the isolation of HIV, multiple transmissions are thought to have occurred between man
and other old-world primates. Assessment of samples from apes and human beings with …

Viral sequence classification has wide applications in clinical, epidemiological, structural
and functional categorization studies. Most existing approaches rely on an initial alignment …

One of the hallmarks of HIV infection is the rapid development of a genetically complex
population (quasispecies) from an initially limited number of infectious particles. Genetic …

The genetic diversity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) results from a
combination of point mutations and genetic recombination, and rates of both processes are …

Recombination in HIV-1 is well documented, but its importance in the low-diversity setting of
within-host diversification is less understood. Here we develop a novel computational tool …

Reverse transcriptases (RTs) play a major role in the replication of Retroviridae,
Metaviridae, Pseudoviridae, Hepadnaviridae and Caulimoviridae. RTs are enzymes that are …

With constantly changing environmental selection pressures, retroviruses rely upon
recombination to reassort polymorphisms in their genomes and increase genetic diversity …

Genetic recombination is an important process during the evolution of many virus species
and occurs particularly frequently amongst begomoviruses in the single stranded DNA virus …

Recombination is a driving force for the emergence, evolution and virulence/epidemics of
viruses, comprising the Enterovirus genus of the Picornaviridae family, important for human …