Viruses and mobile elements as drivers of evolutionary transitions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1701, 2016, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antivirus defence; Evolutionary transitions; Host parasite coevolution; Mobile genetic elements; Parasites; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COEVOLUTION; EMERGENCE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PARASITE; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; VIRUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84978762949     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0442     Document Type: Review

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