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Geminiviruses: a tale of a plasmid becoming a virus

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2009
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Title
Geminiviruses: a tale of a plasmid becoming a virus
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-9-112
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Authors

Mart Krupovic, Janne J Ravantti, Dennis H Bamford

Abstract

Geminiviruses (family Geminiviridae) are small single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses infecting plants. Their virion morphology is unique in the known viral world - two incomplete T = 1 icosahedra are joined together to form twinned particles. Geminiviruses utilize a rolling-circle mode to replicate their genomes. A limited sequence similarity between the three conserved motifs of the rolling-circle replication initiation proteins (RCR Reps) of geminiviruses and plasmids of Gram-positive bacteria allowed Koonin and Ilyina to propose that geminiviruses descend from bacterial replicons.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 3 1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
Costa Rica 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 219 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 56 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 21%
Student > Master 23 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 6%
Student > Bachelor 15 6%
Other 43 18%
Unknown 33 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 127 54%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 18%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 4%
Environmental Science 3 1%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 <1%
Other 11 5%
Unknown 39 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2022.
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#6,929,388
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,545
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,962
of 106,946 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#16
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,371,288 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
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