Virophages, polintons, and transpovirons: a complex evolutionary network of diverse selfish genetic elements with different reproduction strategies

BACKGROUND: Recent advances of genomics and metagenomics reveal remarkable diversity of viruses and other selfish genetic elements. In particular, giant viruses have been shown to possess their own mobilomes that include virophages, small viruses that parasitize on giant viruses of the Mimiviridae f...

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Autores principales: Yutin, Natalya, Raoult, Didier, Koonin, Eugene V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23701946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-10-158