Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

摘要: When viruses were discovered, they accepted as missing links between the inert world and living organisms. However, this idea was soon abandoned information about their molecular parasitic nature accumulated. Recently, notion that are organisms have had a role in evolution of some essential features cells has experienced renaissance owing to discovery unusually large complex possess typical cellular genes. Here, we contend there is strong evidence against alive represent ancient lineages tree life.