SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Despite the fact that viruses are among the simplest biological entities--consisting only of DNA or RNA encapsulated in ...

A new study shows how the virus that causes COVID-19 is related to the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2003. The new family tree of these viruses could help predict which viruses circulating in ...

Nov. 18 (UPI) --The world's most well-studied viruses are tiny viruses that make us sick, but Earth hosts a great diversity of viruses, many of them harmless, some of them giant and most of them ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would ...

Researchers studying strains of a lethal canine virus and a related human virus have determined why the canine virus was able to spread so quickly from cats to dogs, and then from sick dogs to healthy ...

Biologists have recently discovered that endogenous viral elements that originate from giant viruses are much more common in chlorophyte green algae than previously thought. Viruses are tiny invaders ...

New research by a team of University of Florida investigators, and others, provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The work, published today in Science, ...