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worker ants forage for food to rear the offspring produced by their queen, and subordinate meerkats babysit the offspring of the dominant individuals in their group1,2,3. We term these kinds of acts or traits cooperative because their evolution is ...
A renaissance of virus research is taking centre stage in biology. Empirical data from the last decade indicate the important roles of viruses, both in the evolution of all life and as symbionts of host organisms. There is increasing evidence that all cellular life is colonized by exogenous and...
The key process underlying these recurrent epidemics is the evolution of the viruses to escape the immunity that is induced by prior infection or vaccination. Although we are beginning to understand the processes that underlie the evolutionary dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses, the timing and ...
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and play a potential role in the evolution of life. Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and a long list of maladies that have plagued humanity since time immemorial. Is there anyth...
We live in a symbiotic world where many living forms, from the simplest to the most complex ones, have associations with microorganisms. Thus, symbiosis plays a very important role in the origin, organization, and evolution of life. Give... F Carrapio 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 加载更多研究...
however soil viral communities and in particular those from hot Deserts remain poorly characterized. In this chapter, we explore the evolution of studies describing the diversity and distribution of viruses in hot Deserts both in soils and the water bodies found here and relay the impact researchers...
In the course of evolution viruses emerged many times. They have always played a key role through horizontal gene transfer in evolutionary events and in formation of the tree of life or netlike routes of evolution providing a great deal of genetic diversity. In our opinion, future findings are...
Based on assumptions of the existence of viruses in the prebiotic phase of evolution and hot origins of cellular life, we suggest that this remarkable diversity could have its source in ancestral diversity of viral morphotypes in hot environments. Attempts are made to trace evolutionary relationships...
The discovery of the first non-cellular infectious agent, later determined to be tobacco mosaic virus, paved the way for the field of virology. In the ensuing decades, research focused on discovering and eliminating viral threats to plant and animal heal