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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 334-344Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.02.007
Keywords
Archaea; bacteria; virus; virion; morphotype
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- Academy of Finland [255342, 256518, 271413, 272853]
- University of Helsinki for support of the European Union (EU) European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Instruct Centre for Virus Production
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [271413, 256518, 272853, 271413, 272853, 256518] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Isolated archaeal viruses comprise only a few percent of all known prokaryotic viruses. Thus, the study of viruses infecting archaea is still in its early stages. Here we summarize the most recent discoveries of archaeal viruses utilizing a virion-centered view. We describe the known archaeal virion morphotypes and compare them to the bacterial counterparts, if such exist. Viruses infecting archaea are morphologically diverse and present some unique morphotypes. Although limited in isolate number, archaeal viruses reveal new insights into the viral world, such as deep evolutionary relationships between viruses that infect hosts from all three domains of life.
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