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Viroids

Known as: Viroid, viruslike particle 
A group of pathogens comprising the smallest known agents of infectious disease. They are unencapsulated and are capable of replicating autonomously… 
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Review
2012
Review
2012
Viroids and Hepatitis Delta Virus
Abstract There is a subviral world, whose most prominent representatives are viroids. Despite being solely composed by a circular… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Viroid: a useful model for studying the basic principles of infection and RNA biology.
Viroids are small, circular, noncoding RNAs that currently are known to infect only plants. They also are the smallest self… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Potato spindle tuber viroid strains of different pathogenicity induces and suppresses expression of common and unique genes in infected tomato.
Viroids are the smallest plant pathogens. These RNAs do not encode proteins and are not encapsidated, and yet they can replicate… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Compilation of self-cleaving sequences from plant virus satellite RNAs and other sources.
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Self-cleaving viroid and newt RNAs may only be active as dimers
Avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBV) is a 247-nucleotide, single-stranded, circular RNA1. It is considered to replicate via a rolling… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Structure, sequence and expression of the hepatitis delta (δ) viral genome
Nature 323, 508–514 (1986). A GUANOSINE residue was omitted from the nucleotide sequence of the hepatitis 8 viral (HDV) genomic… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Structural similarities between viroids and transposable genetic elements.
The primary structures of the tomato planta macho and tomato apical stunt viroids have been determined, and probable secondary… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Viroid RNAs of cadang-cadang disease of coconuts
Cadang-cadang is a serious lethal disease of coconut palms in the Philippines. Infectivity is associated with four viroid RNAs… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Chrysanthemum stunt viroid: primary sequence and secondary structure.
The sequence of the 356 nucleotide residues of chrysanthemum stunt viroid (CSV) has been determined. Overlapping linear viroid… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Viroids and Viroid Diseases
A comprehensive, up-to-date account of existing knowledge on viroids and the diseases they cause. Contains original ideas on the… 
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