linkedin post 2018-03-21 05:46:34

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HALLMARK GENES. “However, a small group of virus hallmark genes that encode key proteins involved in genome replication and virion formation, most notably capsid proteins, are represented in a broad variety of elements, comprising a substantial fraction of the edges in the evolutionary network. Virus hallmark genes do not have obvious ancestors in cellular life forms, suggesting that some types of virus-like elements evolved at a precellular stage of the evolution of life.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-19 04:16:17

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UNIT PARADIGM SHIFTS. “Similarly, before metagenomic tools allowed us to see the prokaryotic world, classical biology held that individual organisms are the fundamental units of ecology, of evolution, and of biodiversity, and their evolutionary history could be explained by arranging them into objectively real, lineage-defined groups, with the groups composed into a single-rooted tree.” https://lnkd.in/ewnQ9Vg View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-23 05:13:04

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EUKARYOTIC VIRUSES. “Altogether, eukaryotes are hosts to 18 recognized families of dsDNA viruses that infect a broad spectrum of unicellular and multicellular organisms, and many unclassified viruses, spanning almost the entire range of viral genome sizes, from approximately 4 kb to almost 2.5 Mb.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn
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