With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
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... meaning that while NCVs themselves do not rank among the most central (neither by degree or betweenness), NCV-connected microbial contigs assume dramatically elevated centrality compared to both unconnected microbes and the NCVs themselves. So, NCVs are key mediators of interaction.
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