Experimental fossilisation of viruses from extremophilic Archaea
The role of viruses at different stages of the origin of life has recently been reconsidered. It appears that viruses may have accompanied the earliest forms of life, allowing the transition from an RNA to a DNA world and possibly being involved in the shaping of tree of life in the three domains th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-06-01
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Series: | Biogeosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/8/1465/2011/bg-8-1465-2011.pdf |