Are Viruses alive?

Scientific American

Volumn 291, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 100-105

  Villarreal, Luis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISEASES; GENES; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

BIOCHEMICALS; GRAY AREA; RABIES; VIRAL;

VIRUSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; LIFE; VIRAL PHYSIOLOGY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUSES;

EID: 10044257742     PISSN: 00368733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1204-100     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Viral Quasispecies. Manfred Eigen in Scientific American, Vol. 269, No. 1, pages 42-49; July 1993.
2. DNA Virus Contribution to Host Evolution. L. P. Villarreal m Origin and Evolution of Viruses. Edited by E. Domingo et al. Academic Press, 1999.
3. Lateral Gene Transfer or Viral Colonization? Victor DeFilippis and Louis Villarreal in Science, Vol. 293, page 1048; August 10, 2001.
4. Viruses and the Evolution of Life. Luis Villarreal. ASM Press (in press].