Viral evolution: Primordial cellular origins and late adaptation to parasitism
Explaining the origin of viruses remains an important challenge for evolutionary biology. Previous explanatory frameworks described viruses as founders of cellular life, as parasitic reductive products of ancient cellular organisms or as escapees of modern genomes. Each of these frameworks endow vir...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Landes Bioscience
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575434/ |