What does virus evolution tell us about virus origins?

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5247-5251

  Holmes, Edward C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

DNA VIRUS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME SIZE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT SURVEY; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS EVOLUTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; VIRUSES;

DNA VIRUSES; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 79956105255     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02203-10     Document Type: Short Survey

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