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Viroids are
small single-stranded,
circular RNAs that are
infectious pathogens.
Unlike viruses, they have no
protein coating. All
known viroids are inhabitants...
- If
viruses are
borderline cases or nonliving,
viroids are
further from
being living organisms.
Viroids are some of the
smallest infectious agents, consisting...
- [nucleotides] in length, the rod-like
secondary structure was
striking [...]"
Viroids were
known to
exist in
plants and
cause pathology, and
there had been no...
- Not to be
confused with
virusoids or viruses,
viroids are the
smallest known infectious pathogens.
Viroids are
small single-stranded,
circular RNA that...
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Virusoids are
essentially viroids that have been
encapsulated by a
helper virus coat protein. They are thus
similar to
viroids in
their means of replication...
-
virus species (including some
classed as
satellite viruses and
others as
viroids) in 2,818 genera, 264 families, 72 orders, 40 classes, 17 phyla, 9 kingdoms...
- "ARS
Research Timeline -
Tracking the
Elusive Viroid". 2006-03-02.
Retrieved 2007-07-18.
Discovery of
Viroids Archived 2016-03-03 at the
Wayback Machine...
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world has
resulted from
research on
viroids, the
first representatives of a
novel domain of "subviral pathogens".
Viroids infect plants,
where most are pathogens...
- He
proposed to name it, and
similar agents yet to be discovered,
viroids.
Viroids displaced viruses as the
smallest known infectious agents.
Diener was...
- Rezaian, M. A. (1990). "Australian
grapevine viroid--evidence for
extensive recombination between viroids".
Nucleic Acids Research. 18 (7): 1813–1818....
