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Science 15 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5486, pp. 1866 - 1867
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5486.1866
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VIROLOGY:
Evolution on Life's Fringes

Michael Balter

TOURTOUR, FRANCE--Earlier this summer, two dozen scientists gathered here to take another crack at the question of viral origins and evolution. Fresh evidence that viruses have existed for billions of years suggests that they were on hand when the first cells arose. That has scientists wondering what role these stripped-down microbes played in the evolution of life.

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