Evidence for replicative recombination in cauliflower mosaic virus.
DNA sequencing of CaMV strain "CM4-184" revealed that this strain contains regions related to CaMV strain "S" and other regions related to CaMV strain "CM1841". The presumptive sites of recombination yielding "CM4-184" are located such that they could be explained by intergenomic switching between the RNA templates of two virus strains during synthesis of the nascent DNA minus strand by reverse transcription.
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