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| Title |
What contemporary viruses tell us about evolution: a personal view
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Archives of Virology, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00705-013-1679-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karin Moelling |
| Abstract |
Recent advances in information about viruses have revealed novel and surprising properties such as viral sequences in the genomes of various organisms, unexpected amounts of viruses and phages in the biosphere, and the existence of giant viruses mimicking bacteria. Viruses helped in building genomes and are driving evolution. Viruses and bacteria belong to the human body and our environment as a well-balanced ecosystem. Only in unbalanced situations do viruses cause infectious diseases or cancer. In this article, I speculate about the role of viruses during evolution based on knowledge of contemporary viruses. Are viruses our oldest ancestors? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 1 | 10% |
| Spain | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 4 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 47% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 March 2021.
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#4,118,307
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#335
of 4,472 outputs
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#32,776
of 205,570 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Virology
#3
of 22 outputs
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