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. 2020 Feb 11;117(6):2749-2750.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920855117. Epub 2020 Jan 28.

Reply to Ku and Sun: Ancestors of modern giant and large eukaryotic dsDNA viruses infected proto-eukaryotes

Julien Guglielmini  1 , Anthony C Woo  2 , Mart Krupovic  2 , Patrick Forterre  3   4 , Morgan Gaia  5
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Reply to Ku and Sun: Ancestors of modern giant and large eukaryotic dsDNA viruses infected proto-eukaryotes

Julien Guglielmini et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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