Some viruses can replicate without passing all their genes into any 1 cell.

A classical view in virology assumes that the viral replication cycle occurs within individual cells. But in the case of this “multipartite” virus, it seems that this is not true. The segments infect cells independently and accumulate independently in the plant host cells. It really shows that the virus doesn’t work at a single-cell level, but at a multicellular level.

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