Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution

The origins of viruses are shrouded in mystery, but advances in genomics and the discovery of highly complex giant DNA viruses have stimulated new hypotheses that DNA viruses were involved in the emergence of the eukaryotic cell nucleus, and that they are worthy of being considered as living organis...

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Autor principal: Claverie, Jean-Michel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16787527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-110
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Sumario:The origins of viruses are shrouded in mystery, but advances in genomics and the discovery of highly complex giant DNA viruses have stimulated new hypotheses that DNA viruses were involved in the emergence of the eukaryotic cell nucleus, and that they are worthy of being considered as living organisms.

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