Giant viruses coexisted with the cellular ancestors and represent a distinct supergroup along with superkingdoms Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

BACKGROUND: The discovery of giant viruses with genome and physical size comparable to cellular organisms, remnants of protein translation machinery and virus-specific parasites (virophages) have raised intriguing questions about their origin. Evidence advocates for their inclusion into global phylo...

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Autores principales: Nasir, Arshan, Kim, Kyung Mo, Caetano-Anolles, Gustavo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22920653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-156

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22920653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-156

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