Meanings
plural deltasatellites
- biochemistryA small non-coding DNA satellite about 700 nt long, associated with helper begomoviruses.
Deltasatellites do not encode any gene in their genomes. However, they share some common features.
2021, Encyclopedia of Virology, page 2462 more examples
The purple and green parts of deltasatellite SCR represent the predicted conserved stem-loop and secondary stem-loop structures, respectively.
2019, R. Vinoth Kumar, Geminiviruses: Impact, Challenges and Approaches, page 149Several types of DNA satellites have been described to be associated with begomoviruses: betasatellites, alphasatellites, and deltasatellites.
2023, Elvira Fiallo-Olivé, Jesús Navas-Catillo, “Molecular and Biological Characterization of a New WOrld Mon-/Bipartite Begomovirus/Deltasatellite Complex Infecting Corchorus siliquosus”, in Giuseppe Parrella, Paul Leslie Guy, Toufic Elbeaino, editors, Emerging and Reemerging Plant Viruses in a Context of Global Change
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