Claverie Jean-Michel
Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, CNRS-UPR2589, IBSM, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, 163 Avenue de Luminy, case 934, Marseille 13288, cedex 9, France.
Genome Biol. 2006;7(6):110. doi: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-110.
The origins of viruses are shrouded in mystery, but advances in genomics and the discovery of highly complex giant DNA viruses have stimulated new hypotheses that DNA viruses were involved in the emergence of the eukaryotic cell nucleus, and that they are worthy of being considered as living organisms.
病毒的起源一直笼罩在神秘之中,但基因组学的进展以及高度复杂的巨型DNA病毒的发现激发了新的假说,即DNA病毒与真核细胞核的出现有关,并且它们值得被视为生物体。