Gibbs Adrian J, Gibbs Mark J
Emeritus Faculty, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
, 79 Carruthers St, Curtin, ACT, 2605, Australia.
Arch Virol. 2018 Mar;163(3):815-817. doi: 10.1007/s00705-017-3676-7. Epub 2017 Dec 9.
A recent proposal that the genus Rymovirus be assimilated into the genus Potyvirus is examined, discussed, and rejected. It illustrates the danger of using 'sequence identity' as a proxy for phylogenetic relatedness to distinguish closely related but distinct groups of viruses.
