Are viruses our oldest ancestors?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1033-

  Moelling, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RIBOZYME; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; VIROID; VIRUS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUSES;

EID: 84870626968     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.173     Document Type: Note

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