What Does Virus Evolution Tell Us about Virus Origins?

Gene Exchange and the Origin of Giant Viruses

(2010) Jonathan Filée et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Order to the Viral Universe

(2010) M. Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

On the Origin of Cells and Viruses

(2009) Eugene V. Koonin   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

An ssDNA virus infecting archaea: a new lineage of viruses with a membrane envelope

(2009) Maija K. Pietilä et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Compelling reasons why viruses are relevant for the origin of cells

(2009) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

(2009) David Moreira et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Whole-proteome phylogeny of large dsDNA virus families by an alignment-free method

(2009) G. A. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The origin of viruses

(2009) Patrick Forterre et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Extremely High Mutation Rate of a Hammerhead Viroid

(2009) S. Gago et al.   SCIENCE

Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinants

(2008) Siobain Duffy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Big Bang of picorna-like virus evolution antedates the radiation of eukaryotic supergroups

(2008) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Virus evolution: how far does the double β-barrel viral lineage extend?

(2008) Mart Krupovič et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic profiles reveal evolutionary relationships within the "twilight zone" of sequence similarity

(2008) G. S. Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA