Viruses in Biology

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-398

  López García, Purificación ^a   Moreira, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Definition of life; Evolution; Fourth domain of life; Giant viruses; Horizontal gene transfer; Metabolism; Origin of life; Self replication; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891462616     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-012-0441-y     Document Type: Article

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