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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
卷 7, 期 4, 页码 306-311出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2108
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- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR JC05_ 4,674]
- CNRS
When viruses were discovered, they were accepted as missing links between the inert world and living organisms. However, this idea was soon abandoned as information about their molecular parasitic nature accumulated. Recently, the notion that viruses are living organisms that have had a role in the evolution of some essential features of cells has experienced a renaissance owing to the discovery of unusually large and complex viruses that possess typical cellular genes. Here, we contend that there is strong evidence against the notion that viruses are alive and represent ancient lineages of the tree of life.
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