In recent years, analyses of data obtained by genome sequencing programmes have shown that the presence of viral sequences within the genome of higher living organisms is the rule rather than the exception. In flowering plants, or angiosperms, a veritable molecular invasion has been discovered recently. It provides clues as to how certain plant viruses have evolved.

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