A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses

Biology Direct

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Diemer, Geoffrey S ^a   Stedman, Kenneth M ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA world; Interviral lateral gene transfer; Metaviromics; Modular theory of virus evolution; Non retroviral RNA virus integration; RNA world; RNA DNA recombination; Viral diversity; Viral metagenomics; Virus ecology; Virus world

Indexed keywords

DNA VIRUSES; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA VIRUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMAL SPRING; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; DNA VIRUSES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, VIRAL; HOT SPRINGS; LAKES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA VIRUSES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84859814245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-13     Document Type: Article

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