Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Complex genomes of early nucleocytoviruses revealed by ancient origins of viral aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
Soichiro Kijima, Hiroyuki Hikida, Tom O. Delmont…·Hiroyuki Ogata
The paper analyzes viral aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) in nucleocytoviruses to determine their evolutionary origins and find that some predate the last common eukaryotic ancestor.