Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Panicum streak virus </it>(PanSV; Family <it>Geminiviridae</it>; Genus <it>Mastrevirus</it>) is a close relative of <it>Maize streak virus </it>(MSV), the most serious viral threat...
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| author | Markham Peter G Briddon Rob W Semballa Silla Mboukoulida Joseph Mandakombo Noella Plakoutene Didier Komba Ephrem K Zinga Innocent Oluwafemi Sunday Donaldson Lara Monjane Aderito L Varsani Arvind Lett Jean-Michel Lefeuvre Pierre Rybicki Edward P Martin Darren P |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Panicum streak virus </it>(PanSV; Family <it>Geminiviridae</it>; Genus <it>Mastrevirus</it>) is a close relative of <it>Maize streak virus </it>(MSV), the most serious viral threat to maize production in Africa. PanSV and MSV have the same leafhopper vector species, largely overlapping natural host ranges and similar geographical distributions across Africa and its associated Indian Ocean Islands. Unlike MSV, however, PanSV has no known economic relevance.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here we report on 16 new PanSV full genome sequences sampled throughout Africa and use these together with others in public databases to reveal that PanSV and MSV populations in general share very similar patterns of genetic exchange and geographically structured diversity. A potentially important difference between the species, however, is that the movement of MSV strains throughout Africa is apparently less constrained than that of PanSV strains. Interestingly the MSV-A strain which causes maize streak disease is apparently the most mobile of all the PanSV and MSV strains investigated.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We therefore hypothesize that the generally increased mobility of MSV relative to other closely related species such as PanSV, may have been an important evolutionary step in the eventual emergence of MSV-A as a serious agricultural pathogen.</p> <p>The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are <ext-link ext-link-id="GQ415386" ext-link-type="gen">GQ415386</ext-link>-<ext-link ext-link-id="GQ415401" ext-link-type="gen">GQ415401</ext-link></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4961ef355cc4ab19ea14b4feae55da02022-12-22T01:36:42ZengBMCVirology Journal1743-422X2009-11-016119410.1186/1743-422X-6-194Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeographyMarkham Peter GBriddon Rob WSemballa SillaMboukoulida JosephMandakombo NoellaPlakoutene DidierKomba Ephrem KZinga InnocentOluwafemi SundayDonaldson LaraMonjane Aderito LVarsani ArvindLett Jean-MichelLefeuvre PierreRybicki Edward PMartin Darren P<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p><it>Panicum streak virus </it>(PanSV; Family <it>Geminiviridae</it>; Genus <it>Mastrevirus</it>) is a close relative of <it>Maize streak virus </it>(MSV), the most serious viral threat to maize production in Africa. PanSV and MSV have the same leafhopper vector species, largely overlapping natural host ranges and similar geographical distributions across Africa and its associated Indian Ocean Islands. Unlike MSV, however, PanSV has no known economic relevance.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Here we report on 16 new PanSV full genome sequences sampled throughout Africa and use these together with others in public databases to reveal that PanSV and MSV populations in general share very similar patterns of genetic exchange and geographically structured diversity. A potentially important difference between the species, however, is that the movement of MSV strains throughout Africa is apparently less constrained than that of PanSV strains. Interestingly the MSV-A strain which causes maize streak disease is apparently the most mobile of all the PanSV and MSV strains investigated.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We therefore hypothesize that the generally increased mobility of MSV relative to other closely related species such as PanSV, may have been an important evolutionary step in the eventual emergence of MSV-A as a serious agricultural pathogen.</p> <p>The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are <ext-link ext-link-id="GQ415386" ext-link-type="gen">GQ415386</ext-link>-<ext-link ext-link-id="GQ415401" ext-link-type="gen">GQ415401</ext-link></p>http://www.virologyj.com/content/6/1/194 |
| spellingShingle | Markham Peter G Briddon Rob W Semballa Silla Mboukoulida Joseph Mandakombo Noella Plakoutene Didier Komba Ephrem K Zinga Innocent Oluwafemi Sunday Donaldson Lara Monjane Aderito L Varsani Arvind Lett Jean-Michel Lefeuvre Pierre Rybicki Edward P Martin Darren P Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography Virology Journal |
| title | Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| title_full | Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| title_fullStr | Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| title_short | Comparative analysis of Panicum streak virus and Maize streak virus diversity, recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| title_sort | comparative analysis of panicum streak virus and maize streak virus diversity recombination patterns and phylogeography |
| url | http://www.virologyj.com/content/6/1/194 |
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