Recombination in eukaryotic single stranded DNA viruses

DP Martin, P Biagini, P Lefeuvre, M Golden… - Viruses, 2011 - mdpi.com
Although single stranded (ss) DNA viruses that infect humans and their domesticated
animals do not generally cause major diseases, the arthropod borne ssDNA viruses of …

Recombination as a motor of host switches and virus emergence: geminiviruses as case studies

P Lefeuvre, E Moriones - Current Opinion in Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Recombination is inherent to the geminivirus replication process.•Recombination
is adaptive in the family, allowing for host shifts and increased host ranges.•Recombination …

Bioecology of fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), its management and potential patterns of seasonal spread in Africa

S Niassy, MK Agbodzavu, E Kimathi, B Mutune… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith) has rapidly spread in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) and has emerged as a major pest of maize and sorghum in the continent. For effective …

A genome-wide pairwise-identity-based proposal for the classification of viruses in the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae)

B Muhire, DP Martin, JK Brown, J Navas-Castillo… - Archives of …, 2013 - Springer
Recent advances in the ease with which the genomes of small circular single-stranded DNA
viruses can be amplified, cloned, and sequenced have greatly accelerated the rate at which …

Geminiviruses

H Jeske - TT viruses: the still elusive human pathogens, 2009 - Springer
Plant pathogenic geminiviruses have been proliferating worldwide and have, therefore,
attracted considerable scientific interest during the past three decades. Current knowledge …

Widely conserved recombination patterns among single-stranded DNA viruses

P Lefeuvre, JM Lett, A Varsani, DP Martin - Journal of virology, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
The combinatorial nature of genetic recombination can potentially provide organisms with
immediate access to many more positions in sequence space than can be reached by …

Maize streak virus: an old and complex 'emerging'pathogen

DN Shepherd, DP Martin, E Van Der Walt… - Molecular plant …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Maize streak virus (MSV; Genus Mastrevirus, Family Geminiviridae) occurs throughout
Africa, where it causes what is probably the most serious viral crop disease on the continent …

Recombination, decreased host specificity and increased mobility may have driven the emergence of maize streak virus as an agricultural pathogen

A Varsani, DN Shepherd… - Journal of General …, 2008 - microbiologyresearch.org
Maize streak virus (MSV; family Geminiviridae, genus Mastrevirus), the causal agent of
maize streak disease, ranks amongst the most serious biological threats to food security in …

Avoidance of protein fold disruption in natural virus recombinants

P Lefeuvre, JM Lett, B Reynaud, DP Martin - PLoS Pathogens, 2007 - journals.plos.org
With the development of reliable recombination detection tools and an increasing number of
available genome sequences, many studies have reported evidence of recombination in a …

A high degree of African streak virus diversity within Nigerian maize fields includes a new mastrevirus from Axonopus compressus

S Oluwafemi, S Kraberger, DN Shepherd, DP Martin… - Archives of …, 2014 - Springer
The A-strain of maize streak virus (MSV-A; genus Mastrevirus, family Geminiviridae), the
causal agent of maize streak disease, places a major constraint on maize production …