Review article: Viruses as symbionts

Symbiosis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 11-21

  Ryan, Frank P ^a,b  

^a Sheffield West Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggressive symbiosis; Alus; HERVs; Horizontal gene transfer versus viral symbiogenesis; Lines; LTRs; Plague culling; Primate and human evolution; Retroviruses in vertebrate; Sines; Viral symbiogenesis in host evolution; Viral host co evolution

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; SYMBIONT; VIRUS;

PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34347327995     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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