title: Inter- and intramolecular recombinations in the cucumber mosaic virus genome related to adaptation to alstroemeria.
abstract: In four distinct alstroemeria-infecting cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) isolates, additional sequences of various lengths were present in the 3' nontranslated regions of their RNAs 2 and 3, apparently the result of intra- and intermolecular recombination events. Competition experiments revealed that these recombined RNA 2 and 3 segments increased the biological fitness of CMV in alstroemeria.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Yuh-Kun
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldbach
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prins
mesh_terms: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D017799:Cucumovirus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology; D016679:Genome, Viral; D019668:Liliaceae / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000821:virology; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D012367:RNA, Viral