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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 837-848Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1527
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DNA viruses of the Archaea have highly diverse and often exceptionally complex morphotypes. Many have been isolated from geothermally heated hot environments, raising intriguing questions about their origins, and contradicting the widespread notion of limited biodiversity in extreme environments. Here, we provide a unifying view on archaeal viruses, and present them as a particular assemblage that is fundamentally different in morphotype and genome from the DNA viruses of the other two domains of life, the Bacteria and Eukarya.
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