What makes a virus a virus: Reply from Raoult and Forterre

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 643-

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ARENAVIRUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEFECTIVE VIRUS; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 47549109261     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1858-c2     Document Type: Letter

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