Badnavirus

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the genus Badnavirus of plant viruses in the family Caulimoviridae.

    "Blast searching identified five and nine contigs assembled from small RNAs of samples T1 and T2 matched onto the genome sequences of badnaviruses in the family Caulimoviridae."

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"Blast searching identified five and nine contigs assembled from small RNAs of samples T1 and T2 matched onto the genome sequences of badnaviruses in the family Caulimoviridae."

Etymology

From the genus name, formed from bacilliform + DNA + virus.

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