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Eugene V. Koonin

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Ortervirales: New Virus Order Unifying Five Families of Reverse-Transcribing Viruses

2018

International audience; Reverse-transcribing viruses, which synthesize a copy of genomic DNA from an RNA template, are widespread in animals, plants, algae, and fungi (1, 2). This broad distribution suggests the ancient origin(s) of these viruses, possibly [...]

0301 basic medicineS1retrovirusesviruses[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]ImmunologyretroviridaeMESH: Reverse TranscriptionL73 - Maladies des animauxVirus Replication[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics Phylogenetics and taxonomyMicrobiologyVirusbelpaoviridaeMESH: Viruses03 medical and health sciencesVirologyinternational committee on taxonomy of viruses (ICTV)Metaviridaevirus classificationLetter to the EditorVirus classificationGeneticsTy3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposonscaulimoviridaevirus evolutionbiologyfungiMESH: Virus ReplicationRNAPseudoviridaeReverse Transcriptionbiology.organism_classificationMESH: Caulimoviridaegenomic DNA030104 developmental biologyMESH: RetroviridaeMESH: HepadnaviridaeInsect ScienceViral evolutionhepadnaviridaeBelpaoviridae; Caulimoviridae; Hepadnaviridae; International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV); Metaviridae; Pseudoviridae; Retroviridae; Ty3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposons; retroviruses; virus classification; virus evolutionViruses[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/VirologymetaviridaeCaulimoviridaepseudoviridae
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Classification of prokaryotic genetic replicators: between selfishness and altruism

2015

Prokaryotes harbor a variety of genetic replicators, including plasmids, viruses, and chromosomes, each having different effects on the phenotype of the hosting cell. Here, we propose a classification for replicators of bacteria and archaea on the basis of their horizontal-transfer potential and the type of relationships (mutualistic, symbiotic, commensal, or parasitic) that they have with the host cell vehicle. Horizontal movement of replicators can be either active or passive, reflecting whether or not the replicator encodes the means to mediate its own transfer from one cell to another. Some replicators also have an infectious extracellular state, thus separating viruses from other mobil…

GeneticsbiologyGeneral Neurosciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectArchaeal Virusesbiology.organism_classificationPhenotypeGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyPlasmidHistory and Philosophy of ScienceEvolutionary biologyDNA Transposable ElementsSelfishnessMobile genetic elementsmedia_commonArchaeaAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
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