MORE ANCIENT. “Interestingly, phylogenetic analyses do not support the former concept of RNA- and DNA-viruses descending from cellular life. These analyses also show that DNA and RNA viruses most probably did not have a common ancestor but evolved independently. Viruses probably have to be placed at the very beginning of life, long before cellular life evolved.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022