Virus evolution: fitting lifestyles to a T.
The structure of a double-stranded RNA virus outer shell has revealed unexpected similarities with virions of positive-strand RNA viruses. These similarities intersect with emerging parallels in RNA replication to create intriguing evolutionary possibilities.
Ahlquist
Paul
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. ahlquist@wisc.edu
D005075:Biological Evolution; D018059:Birnaviridae / Q000737:chemistry; D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded; D014771:Virion / Q000502:physiology; D018406:Virus Physiological Phenomena; D014779:Virus Replication / Q000502:physiology; D014780:Viruses / Q000737:chemistry*
D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded