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. 2020 Feb 11;117(6):2747-2748.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919860117. Epub 2020 Jan 28.

Did giant and large dsDNA viruses originate before their eukaryotic hosts?

Chuan Ku  1 , Tsu-Wang Sun  2
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Did giant and large dsDNA viruses originate before their eukaryotic hosts?

Chuan Ku et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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