Characterization of an unusual carlavirus-like RNA from papaya (Carica papaya) lacking essential genes

• Milenka Vera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Raúl Cifuentes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5158-5952

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• Ronan Keener,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Neil Olszewski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Robert A. Alvarez-Quinto ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alvar419@umn.edu (RAA-Q); dquito@espol.edu.ec (DFQ-A)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Diego F. Quito-Avila

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alvar419@umn.edu (RAA-Q); dquito@espol.edu.ec (DFQ-A)

  Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, CIBE, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6170-1113

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