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Viruses engineer the ecosystem

submitted by profvrr on April 01, 2011

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Tags: ecosystem , mimivirus , sputnik , viral , virology , virophage , virus

Source: www.virology.ws

Last week we discussed the second known virophage, but we didn’t have any explanation of why such viruses might evolve. This week we have the discovery of a third virophage, hints of many more, and a hypothesis for what they might be doing in the global ecosystem.

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