G-quadruplexes may determine the landscape of recombination in HSV-1.
Nandhini SaranathanBanhi BiswasAnupam PatraPerumal VivekanandanPublished in: BMC genomics (2019)
Our findings suggest a correlation between the HSV-1 recombination landscape and the distribution of G4-motifs and G4-clusters, with possible implications for the evolution of DNA viruses.