Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

David Prangishvili; Patrick Forterre; Roger Antony Garrett

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Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

David Prangishvili, Patrick Forterre, Roger Antony Garrett

Functional Genomics

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Abstract

DNA viruses of the Archaea have highly diverse and often exceptionally complex morphotypes. Many have been isolated from geothermally heated hot environments, raising intriguing questions about their origins, and contradicting the widespread notion of limited biodiversity in extreme environments. Here, we provide a unifying view on archaeal viruses, and present them as a particular assemblage that is fundamentally different in morphotype and genome from the DNA viruses of the other two domains of life, the Bacteria and Eukarya.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Reviews. Microbiology
Volume	4
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	837-48
Number of pages	12
ISSN	1740-1526
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1527
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2006

Keywords

Archaea
Archaeal Viruses
Biological Evolution
Genome, Viral

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