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Virus World as an Evolutionary Network of Viruses and Capsidless Selfish Elements

Creator:

Koonin, Eugene V. and Dolja, Valerian V.

Abstract:

Viruses were defined as one of the two principal types of organisms in the biosphere, namely, as capsid-encoding organisms in contrast to ribosome-encoding organisms, i.e., all cellular life forms. Structurally similar, apparently homologous capsids are present in a huge variety of icosahedral viruses that infect bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. These...

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Article