Abstract
The geological time scale of virus phylogeny, along with high mutation rates and small genome sizes, have given viruses wide access to regions of evolutionary phase space. The resulting diversity in viral host range, morphology, nucleic acid, and replication strategy are surveyed, using the data on all virus families and unassigned genera in the most recent (2005) report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
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