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Here, we investigated the diversity, distribution, and structural organization of ECVs in 30 chromosome-level genome assemblies representing 15 species of the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Prunus<\/jats:italic>\n                    . A genome-wide search based on conserved reverse transcriptase (RT) domains identified 781 caulimovirid sequences, which were classified into 18 clusters belonging to the operational taxonomic units Florendovirus and Yendovirus. Florendovirus-1 (Flo-1) was the predominant lineage, accounting for 532 sequences and 68% of all RT sequences detected. To characterize this lineage in detail, we reconstructed a 7,193-bp Flo-1 consensus sequence from seven complete elements identified in a high-quality almond genome assembly. The reconstructed Flo-1 genome contained two open reading frames and the canonical caulimovirid movement protein, coat protein, aspartic protease, reverse transcriptase, and RNase H domains. A detailed nucleotide-level search identified 757 Flo-1-derived fragments in\n                    <jats:italic>P. dulcis<\/jats:italic>\n                    genome spanning 0.91 Mb, corresponding to 0.37% of the almond genome. These fragments were organized into 176 loci, of which 36% contained multiple insertions comprising complete or fragmented elements in different orientations. The inferred endogenization breakpoints of 77% of complete elements were located near the Met-tRNA binding site. Consistently, few fragments spanned this region, whereas fragment termini showed a pronounced enrichment around it, suggesting preferential viral genome linearization at or near this position. Phylogenetic analysis of RT-coding sequences within multiple-insertion loci revealed both closely related and divergent elements. These findings indicate that the present-day organization of Flo-1 loci cannot be explained by a single process and probably reflects the combined effects of concatemer integration, recurrent insertion, local duplication, recombination, fragmentation, and post-integration rearrangement. Overall, this study reveals the extensive contribution and complex evolutionary history of endogenous florendoviruses in\n                    <jats:italic>Prunus<\/jats:italic>\n                    genomes.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpls.2026.1886618","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]],"date-time":"2026-09-29T05:46:13Z","timestamp":1790660773000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A comprehensive comparative genomic analysis of the endogenous Florendovirus-1 in Prunus"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Carlos M.","family":"Vicient","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Edifici CRAG","place":["Barcelona, Spain"]},{"name":"Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas (CSIC)","place":["Barcelona, Spain"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"26","DOI":"10.1016\/j.virol.2015.02.011","article-title":"Endogenous viruses: connecting recent and ancient viral evolution","author":"Aiewsakun","year":"2015","journal-title":"Virology"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"759","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.93.2.759","article-title":"Integration of multiple repeats of geminiviral DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco during evolution","volume":"93","author":"Bejarano","year":"1996","journal-title":"Proc. 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