title: Genome similarities between plant and animal RNA viruses.
abstract: Gene sequence comparisons and protein comparisons provide more and more evidence that evolutionary links exist between plant and animal RNA viruses, irrespective of whether they have an isometric or rod-shaped particle, or of whether they have a divided or non-divided genome. Although a phylogeny based on these molecular data cannot yet be constructed the results obtained so far shed a new light on the origin and evolution of RNA viruses and are important in terms of their taxonomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldbach
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D005814:Genes, Viral; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid