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SUBMITTER: Krupovic M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5373398 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krupovic Mart M Koonin Eugene V EV
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170306 12
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth and show remarkable diversity of genome sequences, replication and expression strategies, and virion structures. Evolutionary genomics of viruses revealed many unexpected connections but the general scenario(s) for the evolution of the virosphere remains a matter of intense debate among proponents of the cellular regression, escaped genes, and primordial virus world hypotheses. A comprehensive sequence and structure analysis of major vir ...[more]