Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution?
The huge diversity of negative-sense RNA viruses in insects, spiders and other arthropods suggests that these animals could be central to virus origin and evolution.
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
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| author | Gytis Dudas Darren J Obbard |
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| description | The huge diversity of negative-sense RNA viruses in insects, spiders and other arthropods suggests that these animals could be central to virus origin and evolution. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-510070f9b9d84fe79e458981feefeea32022-12-22T03:33:48ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2015-03-01410.7554/eLife.06837Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution?Gytis Dudas0Darren J Obbard1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomInstitute of Evolutionary Biology and Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe huge diversity of negative-sense RNA viruses in insects, spiders and other arthropods suggests that these animals could be central to virus origin and evolution.https://elifesciences.org/articles/06837RNA virusevolutionarthropodsegmentationnegative-sensephylogeny |
| spellingShingle | Gytis Dudas Darren J Obbard Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? eLife RNA virus evolution arthropod segmentation negative-sense phylogeny |
| title | Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? |
| title_full | Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? |
| title_fullStr | Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? |
| title_short | Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution? |
| title_sort | are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution |
| topic | RNA virus evolution arthropod segmentation negative-sense phylogeny |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/06837 |
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