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

"plos publication stage vor-update-to-uncorrected-proof publication update 2024-01-24 data availability all data and software code are available on our github repository ( https://github com/mg878/sobemovirus_genus ).; data availability all data and software code are available on our github repository ( https://github com/mg878/sobemovirus_genus )."

"plos publication stage vor-update-to-uncorrected-proof publication update 2024-01-24 data availability all data and software code are available on our github repository ( https://github com/mg878/sobemovirus_genus ).; the code for the pow model is also available on github ( https://github com/mg878/pow_model ).; data availability all data and software code are available on our github repository ( https://github com/mg878/sobemovirus_genus ).; the code for the pow model is also available on github ( https://github com/mg878/pow_model )."

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"Estonian-French science and technology cooperation programme Parrot travel grant 2021-2022 for the project "Emergence and divergence of plant viruses on cereals: Sobemoviruses - a case study" was granted to E.H. and C.S. and contributed to this research. P.L. acknowledges support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 project MOOD (grant agreement no. 874850) and the research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 725422-ReservoirDOCS), from the Wellcome Trust through project 206298/Z/17/Z, and from the Research Foundation - Flanders (‘Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen’, G0D5117N and G051322N). A.K. acknowledges support from the European Research Council (grant number 101001623-PALVIREVOL). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."