Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

2009/03/09 by David Moreira, Purificación López‐García, Purificación López-García · 7 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #Biology #Ecology #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Giant Virus #History #Phylogenetics #Plant Virus Research Studies #The Renaissance #Tree of life (biology) #Viral evolution #Virology

paper · doi:10.1038/nrmicro2108

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