Microbiologists Patrick Moreira and Purificación López-García, together with virologists Arturo Ludmir and Lynn Enquist, are at the center of a sharp debate over whether viruses count as living ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Steven Wilhelm, University of Tennessee and Joshua Weitz, University of Maryland (THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research ship sails in the Atlantic Ocean, where scientists are studying the roles of marine viruses. SW Wilhelm Virus. The word ...