Rymovirus: a cautionary tale

Adrian J. Gibbs; Mark J. Gibbs

doi:10.1007/s00705-017-3676-7

Rymovirus: a cautionary tale

Adrian J. Gibbs^*, Mark J. Gibbs

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Abstract

A recent proposal that the genus Rymovirus be assimilated into the genus Potyvirus is examined, discussed, and rejected. It illustrates the danger of using ‘sequence identity’ as a proxy for phylogenetic relatedness to distinguish closely related but distinct groups of viruses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	815-817
Number of pages	3
Journal	Archives of Virology
Volume	163
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-017-3676-7
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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