The origins of giant viruses, virophages and their relatives in host genomes

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Katzourakis, Aris ^a   Aswad, Amr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIMIVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; VIROLOGY;

MIMIVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS;

EID: 84929519207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0051-y     Document Type: Note

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