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ArticleThe Journal of general virology2009

Rapid host adaptation by extensive recombination.

Eric van der Walt, Edward P Rybicki, Arvind Varsani, J E Polston, Rosalind Billharz, Lara Donaldson, Adérito L Monjane, Darren P Martin

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Article in The Journal of general virology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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8 authors.

Eric van der WaltDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Edward P RybickiInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Arvind VarsaniElectron Microscope Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
J E PolstonDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Rosalind BillharzDepartment of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Lara DonaldsonDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Adérito L MonjaneDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Darren P MartinInstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experimental investigations into virus recombination can provide valuable insights into the biochemical mechanisms and the evolutionary value of this fundamental biological process. Here, we describe an experimental scheme for studying recombination that should be applicable to any recombinogenic viruses amenable to the production of synthetic infectious genomes. Our approach is based on differences in fitness that generally exist between synthetic chimaeric genomes and the wild-type viruses from which they are constructed. In mixed infections of defective reciprocal chimaeras, selection strongly favours recombinant progeny genomes that recover a portion of wild-type fitness. Characterizing these evolved progeny viruses can highlight both important genetic fitness determinants and the contribution that recombination makes to the evolution of their natural relatives. Moreover, these experiments supply precise information about the frequency and distribution of recombination breakpoints, which can shed light on the mechanistic processes underlying recombination. We demonstrate the value of this approach using the small single-stranded DNA geminivirus, maize streak virus (MSV). Our results show that adaptive recombination in this virus is extremely efficient and can yield complex progeny genomes comprising up to 18 recombination breakpoints. The patterns of recombination that we observe strongly imply that the mechanistic processes underlying rolling circle replication are the prime determinants of recombination breakpoint distributions found in MSV genomes sampled from nature.

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Genome, ViralRecombination, GeneticSelection, GeneticBase SequenceDNA, ViralGeminiviridaeMaize streak virusMolecular Sequence DataMutationPlant DiseasesPlant LeavesZea maysDNA, Viral

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PMID19218220
PMCPMC2885065

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