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. 2019 Feb;566(7744):318-320.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-00599-8.

Classify viruses - the gain is worth the pain

Jens H Kuhn, Yuri I Wolf, Mart Krupovic, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Piet Maes, Valerian V Dolja, Eugene V Koonin

Classify viruses - the gain is worth the pain

Jens H Kuhn et al. Nature. 2019 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: Diseases; Virology.

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Viruses that infect humans, such as Ebola, are a tiny fraction of what needs to be characterized.
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A researcher observes the life cycle of Pithovirus, a giant virus that infects amoebae.
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CLASSIFYING RNA VIRUSES
Phylogenetic tree determined using RNA-dependent RNA polymerases.
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