A parasite's parasite saves host's neighbours

Eugene V. Koonin and Mart Krupovic
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Eugene V. Koonin: Eugene V. Koonin is at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Mart Krupovic: Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France.

Nature, 2016, vol. 540, issue 7632, 204-205

Abstract: Viruses can be attacked by parasitic viruses, which compete with them for cellular resources. It emerges that one such parasitic virus can defend a host-cell population from a viral attack. See Letter p.288

Date: 2016
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