Intracellular bottlenecking permits no more than three tomato yellow leaf curl virus genomes to initiate replication in a single cell

• Ruifan Ren ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruifan Ren, Limin Zheng

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, China, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Changsha, China

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• Limin Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruifan Ren, Limin Zheng

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

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• Junping Han,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

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• Camila Perdoncini Carvalho,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

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• Shuhei Miyashita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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• Deyong Zhang ,

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: dyzhang78@163.com (DZ); qu.28@osu.edu (FQ)

  Affiliations Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, China, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Changsha, China

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• Feng Qu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dyzhang78@163.com (DZ); qu.28@osu.edu (FQ)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0079-3496

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