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.
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom darren.obbard@ed.ac.uk.
Darren J
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Obbard
D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000821:virology*; D005075:Biological Evolution
RNA virus; arthropods; evolution; infectious disease; microbiology; negative-sense; phylogeny; segmentation; viruses