TY - JOUR
T1 - Viruses of hyperthermophilic Crenarchaea
AU - Prangishvili, D.
AU - Garrett, R. A.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Since the discovery of the Archaea - the third domain of life - by Woese and colleagues in 1977, the subsequent developments in molecular and cell biology, and also genomics, have strongly reinforced the view that archaea and eukarya co-evolved, separately from bacteria, over a long time. However, when one examines the archaeal viruses, the picture appears complex. Most viruses that are known to infect members of the kingdom Euryarchaeota resemble bacterial viruses, whereas those associated with the kingdom Crenarchaeota show little resemblance to either bacterial or eukaryal viruses. This review summarizes our current knowledge of this group of exceptional and highly diverse archaeal viruses.
AB - Since the discovery of the Archaea - the third domain of life - by Woese and colleagues in 1977, the subsequent developments in molecular and cell biology, and also genomics, have strongly reinforced the view that archaea and eukarya co-evolved, separately from bacteria, over a long time. However, when one examines the archaeal viruses, the picture appears complex. Most viruses that are known to infect members of the kingdom Euryarchaeota resemble bacterial viruses, whereas those associated with the kingdom Crenarchaeota show little resemblance to either bacterial or eukaryal viruses. This review summarizes our current knowledge of this group of exceptional and highly diverse archaeal viruses.
U2 - 10.1016/j.tim.2005.08.013
DO - 10.1016/j.tim.2005.08.013
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0966-842X
VL - 13
SP - 535
EP - 542
JO - Trends in Microbiology
JF - Trends in Microbiology
IS - 11
ER -