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Evolution of microbes and viruses: a paradigm shift in evolutionary biology?
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2012
Koonin Eugene V, Wolf Yuri I
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When Charles Darwin formulated the central principles of evolutionary biology in the Origin of Species in 1859 and the architects of the Modern Synthesis integrated these principles with population genetics almost a century later, the principal if not the sole objects of evolutionary biology were multicellular eukaryotes, primarily animals and plants. Before the advent of efficient gene sequencing, all attempts...
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