To be or not to be a virus: A novel chimeric circular Rep-encoding single stranded DNA virus with interfamilial gene exchange illustrates the considerable evolutionary capacity of ssDNA viruses

• Sélim Ben Chéhida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5353-8029

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• Sylvain Lacroix,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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• Murielle Hoareau,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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• Babbitha Fenelon,

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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• Arvind Varsani,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-2415

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• Darren P. Martin,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa

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• Pierre-Yves Teycheney,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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• Pierre Lefeuvre,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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• Jean-Michel Lett

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jean-michel.lett@cirad.fr

  Affiliation CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, St Pierre, France

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