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Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (glossina morsitans): vector of African trypanosomiasis
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014)
Tsetse flies are the sole vectors of human African trypanosomiasis throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Both sexes of adult tsetse feed exclusively on blood and contribute to disease transmission. Notable
differences between ...
Geometagenomics illuminates the impact of agriculture on the distribution and prevalence of plant viruses at the ecosystem scale
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
Disease emergence events regularly result from human activities such as agriculture, which
frequently brings large populations of genetically uniform hosts into contact with potential
pathogens. Although viruses cause ...
Evidence of pervasive biologically functional secondary structures within the Genomes of Eukaryotic Single-Stranded DNA Viruses
(American Society for Microbiology, 2013)
Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses have genomes that are potentially capable of forming complex secondary structures
through Watson-Crick base pairing between their constituent nucleotides. A few of the structural elements ...
Evidence that dicot-infecting mastreviruses are particularly prone to inter-species recombination and have likely been circulating in Australia for longer than in Africa and the Middle East
(Elsevier, 2013)
Viruses of the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae) are transmitted by leafhoppers and infect either mono- or dicotyledonous plants. Here we have determined the full length sequences of 49 dicot-infecting mastrevirus ...
Avihepadnavirus diversity in parrots is comparable to that found amongst all other avian species
(Elsevier, 2013)
Avihepadna viruses have previously been isolated from various species of duck ,goose, stork, heron and
crane. Recently the first parrot avihepadna virus was isolated from a Ring-necked Parakeet in Poland. In
this study, ...
Extensive recombination detected among beak and feather disease virus isolates from breeding facilities in Poland
(Microbiology Society, 2013)
Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) causes the highly contagious, in some cases fatal,
psittacine beak and feather disease in parrots. The European continent has no native parrots, yet
in the past has been one of the ...