Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution.

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Published in Virol J on December 17, 2009

Authors

Natalya Yutin1, Yuri I Wolf, Didier Raoult, Eugene V Koonin

Author Affiliations

1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. yutin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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