Drowning in Viruses

Scott A Handley; Herbert W Virgin

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.045

Drowning in Viruses

Cell. 2019 May 16;177(5):1084-1085. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.045.

Authors

Scott A Handley¹, Herbert W Virgin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
² Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Vir Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: virgin@wustl.edu.

PMID: 31100262
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.045

Abstract

The virome is increasingly recognized as a key part of individual cells (as endogenous retroviruses or persistent infection) and multicellular organisms (as either pathogens or commensals) and, as shown by Gregory et al. (2019), as diverse components of ocean ecosystems.

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MeSH terms

DNA
Drowning*
Humans
Microbiota*
Viruses / genetics*

Substances

DNA