Figure 1

Recombinant regions (a, b and c) detected within the isolates of African cassava mosaic Burkina Faso virus using RDP3. The genome at the top of the figure corresponds to the schematic representation of sequence below. Region coordinates are nucleotide positions of detected recombination breakpoints. Wherever, possible parental sequences are identified. "Major" and "Minor" parents are sequences that were used, along with the indicated recombinant sequence to identify recombination. Whereas for each identified event the minor parent is apparently the contributor of the sequence within the indicated region, the major parent is the apparent contributor of the rest of the sequence. Note that the identified "parental sequences" are not the actual parents but are simply those sequences most similar to the actual parents in the analysed dataset. Recombinant regions and parental viruses were identified using the RDP (R), GENECONV (G), BOOTSCAN (B), MAXIMUM CHI SQUARE (M), CHIMAERA (C), SISTER SCAN (S) and 3Seq (T) methods.