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Title	A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses
Published in	Biology Direct, January 2012
DOI	10.1186/1745-6150-7-13
Pubmed ID	22515485
Authors	Geoffrey S Diemer, Kenneth M Stedman
Abstract	Viruses are known to be the most abundant organisms on earth, yet little is known about their collective origin and evolutionary history. With exceptionally high rates of genetic mutation and mosaicism, it is not currently possible to resolve deep evolutionary histories of the known major virus groups. Metagenomics offers a potential means of establishing a more comprehensive view of viral evolution as vast amounts of new sequence data becomes available for comparative analysis.

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Country	Count	As %
United States	14	26%
United Kingdom	10	19%
Sweden	3	6%
Brazil	1	2%
Denmark	1	2%
France	1	2%
Ghana	1	2%
Netherlands	1	2%
Central African Republic	1	2%
Other	3	6%
Unknown	17	32%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	38	72%
Scientists	10	19%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	5	9%

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Country	Count	As %
United States	3	1%
United Kingdom	2	<1%
Brazil	2	<1%
Sudan	1	<1%
Turkey	1	<1%
Norway	1	<1%
France	1	<1%
Portugal	1	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Other	7	3%
Unknown	232	92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	59	23%
Researcher	45	18%
Student > Master	28	11%
Student > Bachelor	28	11%
Student > Doctoral Student	17	7%
Other	57	23%
Unknown	18	7%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	132	52%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	33	13%
Immunology and Microbiology	16	6%
Environmental Science	9	4%
Computer Science	8	3%
Other	25	10%
Unknown	29	12%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 138. 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 20 July 2022.

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A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses

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