The Signatures of Natural Selection and Molecular Evolution in Fusarium graminearum Virus 1

• Published in: Frontiers in microbiology Vol. 11; p. 600775
• Main Authors: Heo, Jeong-In, Yu, Jisuk, Choi, Hoseong, Kim, Kook-Hyung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 12.11.2020
• Subjects: deleterious mutation; FgV1; Microbiology; positive selection; serial passage; viral fitness

Fusarium graminearum virus 1 (FgV1) is a positive-sense ssRNA virus that confers hypovirulence in its fungal host, Fusarium graminearum. Like most mycoviruses, FgV1 exists in fungal cells, lacks an extracellular life cycle, and is therefore transmitted during sporulation or hyphal anastomosis. To un...