Sentences with phrase «than the virus evolving»

Increased city living rather than the virus evolving seems to be behind the unprecedented epidemic, which means it is unlikely to go global

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Overall, the team's findings lend credence to the theory that giant viruses evolved from much smaller viruses, rather than aligning with theories that they may instead be descended from a cellular ancestor.

The only seemingly safe assumptions were that viruses will always be smaller in both physical size and genomic content than the simplest bacteria and that viruses had to have evolved after those same cellular organisms, on which their parasitism depends.

Influenza B Yamagata viruses evolve at a much slower than influenza B Victoria viruses.

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

In contrast to previous reports, new findings suggest the Ebola virus is not evolving more rapidly during this outbreak than it has in previous, less extensive Ebola outbreaks.

Didier Raoult, whose team discovered the transpovirons, says: «It appears that viruses have evolved from non-viral genetic elements and vice versa on more than one occasion.

The complex network of evolutionary relationships the authors describe suggests that viruses evolved from non-viral mobile genetic elements and vice versa, on more than one occasion.