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Viruses of archaea: Structural, functional, environmental and evolutionary genomics.
Virus research - 15 Jan 2018
Krupovic Mart, Cvirkaite-Krupovic Virginija, Iranzo Jaime, Prangishvili David, Koonin Eugene V
Abstract excerpt
Viruses of archaea represent one of the most enigmatic parts of the virosphere. Most of the characterized archaeal viruses infect extremophilic hosts and display remarkable diversity of virion morphotypes, many of which have never been observed among viruses of bacteria or eukaryotes. The uniqueness of the virion morphologies is matched by the distinctiveness of the genomes of these viruses, with ∼75% of genes...
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