Taxonomic Classification of Geminiviruses Based on Pairwise Sequence Comparisons.

Geminiviridae is the largest and one of the most diverse families of plant viruses, comprising 14 genera demarcated based on host range, type of insect vector, and phylogenetic relationships. The use of unbiased, whole-genome multiple displacement amplification techniques coupled with high-throughput sequencing has greatly expanded our knowledge of geminivirus diversity over the last two decades. As a result, a large number of new species have been described in recent years. Species demarcation criteria in the family are entirely based on sequence comparisons, but the specific cutoff values vary for each genus. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a step-by-step pipeline to classify new species in the family Geminiviridae. © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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João Paulo Herrera da Silva, F Murilo Zerbini. Taxonomic Classification of Geminiviruses Based on Pairwise Sequence Comparisons. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2024;2724:21-31

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