The remarkable evolutionary history of endornaviruses

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2011

Abstract

The family Endornaviridae contains several members from diverse hosts, including plants, fungi and oomycetes. They are found as large dsRNA elements with a nick in the coding strand. All members encode a conserved RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, but no other domain that is conserved among all members. Based on the conserved domain database comparison the various domains have different origins, indicating a highly modular evolutionary history. In some cases, domains with similar putative functions are found that are derived from different protein families, indicating convergent evolution for a required function. © 2011 SGM.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of General Virology

First Page

2674

Last Page

2678

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