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Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life
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Metadata
- Authors
- Moreira, D., & López-García, P.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Published
- 2009-03-09
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 306-311
- ISSN
- 1740-1526 (ISSN-L)
- 1740-1534
- OpenAlex
- W2005818475
- Cited by
- 450
- References
- 64
- FWCI
- 4.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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