The Ancient Evolutionary History of Polyomaviruses.

Polyomaviruses are a family of DNA tumor viruses that are known to infect mammals and birds. To investigate the deeper evolutionary history of the family, we used a combination of viral metagenomics, bioinformatics, and structural modeling approaches to identify and characterize polyomavirus sequenc...

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Main Authors: Christopher B Buck, Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Alberto Peretti, Eileen M Geoghegan, Michael J Tisza, Ping An, Joshua P Katz, James M Pipas, Alison A McBride, Alvin C Camus, Alexa J McDermott, Jennifer A Dill, Eric Delwart, Terry F F Ng, Kata Farkas, Charlotte Austin, Simona Kraberger, William Davison, Diana V Pastrana, Arvind Varsani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-04-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005574