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EVOLUTION OF RNA VIRUSES
Author(s) -
Baltimore David
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1980.tb27988.x
Subject(s) - rna , viral evolution , computational biology , virology , biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , gene
These arguments lead to the suggestion that four independent evolutionary lines exist within the general group of RNA viruses. These are positive strand viruses, negative strand viruses, double stranded viruses, and retroviruses. Three of the viral systems may well have shared genes but the double-stranded RNA viruses appear to represent a very different evolutionary line.