Revisiting the origins of the Sobemovirus genus: A case for ancient origins of plant viruses

• Mahan Ghafari ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mahan.ghafari@ndm.ox.ac.uk (MG); denis.fargette@ird.fr (DF)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4123-3287

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• Merike Sõmera,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

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• Cecilia Sarmiento,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

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• Annette Niehl,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)–Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Eugénie Hébrard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2128-1302

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• Theocharis Tsoleridis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Wolfson Centre for Global Virus Research and School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan Ball,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Wolfson Centre for Global Virus Research and School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Benoît Moury,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INRAE, Pathologie Végétale, Montfavet, France

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• Philippe Lemey,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2826-5353

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• Aris Katzourakis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Denis Fargette

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mahan.ghafari@ndm.ox.ac.uk (MG); denis.fargette@ird.fr (DF)

  Affiliation PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

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