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.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  eLife

• Publication date

  2015-03-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.7554/eLife.06837PMID 25751043PMCID 4352705
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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