Editorial: Viruses, Genetic Exchange, and the Tree of Life

Front Microbiol. 2019 Nov 29:10:2782. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02782. eCollection 2019.

Arshan Nasir^{1

2}, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés³, Jean-Michel Claverie⁴

¹ Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
² Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States.
³ Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States.
⁴ Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IGS, Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (UMR7256), Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology (FR3479), Marseille, France.

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Keywords: ORFans; evolution; horizontal gene transfer; origin of nucleus; tree of life; viruses.

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