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The Giant Cafeteria roenbergensis Virus That Infects a Widespread Marine Phagocytic Protist Is a New Member of the Fourth Domain of Life

BACKGROUND: A recent work has provided strong arguments in favor of a fourth domain of Life composed of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs). This hypothesis was supported by phylogenetic and phyletic analyses based on a common set of proteins conserved in Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria, and vi...

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Autores principales: Colson, Philippe, Gimenez, Gregory, Boyer, Mickaël, Fournous, Ghislain, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21559486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018935