Background Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but
most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to …

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. It is …

The ongoing global spread of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV; Genus Begomovirus,
Family Geminiviridae) represents a serious looming threat to tomato production in all …

Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage with an acidic and effervescent taste, is composed of
a multispecies microbial ecosystem with complex interactions that are characterized by both …

Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related
with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed VIRIDIC, which implements …

The incidence of begomovirus infections in crop plants sharply increased in Brazil during
the 1990s following the introduction of the invasive B biotype of the whitefly vector, Bemisia …

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in February 2019. Of note, in addition to seven …

Geminiviruses are plant-infecting single-stranded DNA viruses that occur in most parts of
the world. Currently, there are seven genera within the family Geminiviridae (Becurtovirus, …

During the last few decades, many virus species have emerged, often forming dynamic
complexes within which viruses share common hosts and rampantly exchange genetic material …

Viruses with circular ssDNA genomes that encode a replication initiator protein (Rep) are
among the smallest viruses known to infect both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. In the …