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What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view
Recent advances in information about viruses have revealed novel and surprising properties such as viral sequences in the genomes of various organisms, unexpected amounts of viruses and phages in the biosphere, and the existence of giant viruses mimicking bacteria. Viruses helped in building genomes...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23568292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-013-1679-6 |
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| description | Recent advances in information about viruses have revealed novel and surprising properties such as viral sequences in the genomes of various organisms, unexpected amounts of viruses and phages in the biosphere, and the existence of giant viruses mimicking bacteria. Viruses helped in building genomes and are driving evolution. Viruses and bacteria belong to the human body and our environment as a well-balanced ecosystem. Only in unbalanced situations do viruses cause infectious diseases or cancer. In this article, I speculate about the role of viruses during evolution based on knowledge of contemporary viruses. Are viruses our oldest ancestors? |
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| spelling | pubmed-37552282013-09-05 What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view Moelling, Karin Arch Virol Brief Review Recent advances in information about viruses have revealed novel and surprising properties such as viral sequences in the genomes of various organisms, unexpected amounts of viruses and phages in the biosphere, and the existence of giant viruses mimicking bacteria. Viruses helped in building genomes and are driving evolution. Viruses and bacteria belong to the human body and our environment as a well-balanced ecosystem. Only in unbalanced situations do viruses cause infectious diseases or cancer. In this article, I speculate about the role of viruses during evolution based on knowledge of contemporary viruses. Are viruses our oldest ancestors? Springer Vienna 2013-04-09 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3755228/ /pubmed/23568292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-013-1679-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
| spellingShingle | Brief Review Moelling, Karin What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title | What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title_full | What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title_fullStr | What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title_full_unstemmed | What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title_short | What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| title_sort | what contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view |
| topic | Brief Review |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23568292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-013-1679-6 |
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