The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions

Virus Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-16

  Forterre, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

DNA origin; DNA replication; LUCA; Mimivirus; Nucleus origin; RNA world; RNA DNA transition; Universal tree of life; Virus origin

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; DNA REPLICATION; DNA VIRUS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; MIMIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33645053240     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.010     Document Type: Review

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