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ArticleeLife2015

Are arthropods at the heart of virus evolution?

Gytis Dudas, Darren J Obbard

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Article in eLife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gytis DudasInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Darren J ObbardInstitute of Evolutionary Biology and Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom darren.obbard@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 095831
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The huge diversity of negative-sense RNA viruses in insects, spiders and other arthropods suggests that these animals could be central to virus origin and evolution.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionAnimalsArthropodsarthropodsevolutioninfectious diseasemicrobiologynegative-sensephylogenyRNA virussegmentationviruses

Identifiers

PMID25751043
PMCPMC4352705

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