Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 160; no. 6; pp. 1593 - 1619
• Main Authors: Brown, Judith K., Zerbini, F. Murilo, Navas-Castillo, Jesús, Moriones, Enrique, Ramos-Sobrinho, Roberto, Silva, José C. F., Fiallo-Olivé, Elvira, Briddon, Rob W., Hernández-Zepeda, Cecilia, Idris, Ali, Malathi, V. G., Martin, Darren P., Rivera-Bustamante, Rafael, Ueda, Shigenori, Varsani, Arvind
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.06.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Begomovirus; Begomovirus - classification; Begomovirus - genetics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cloning; Curtovirus; DNA; family; Genetic engineering; genome; Genome, Viral - genetics; Genomes; genus; Infectious Diseases; Mastrevirus; Medical Microbiology; Pathogens; Phylogeny; Plant Diseases - virology; Plants - virology; Sequence Alignment; species; Taxonomy; Virology; Virology Division News; Viruses; Brazil; Sequence Demarcation Tool; Single-stranded DNA virus; Taxonomy; Whitefly-transmitted viruses; Nomenclature; Species demarcation

Viruses of the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae ) are emergent pathogens of crops throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. By virtue of having a small DNA genome that is easily cloned, and due to the recent innovations in cloning and low-cost sequencing, there has been a...