Virus origin could relate to the act of prey among primitive life forms
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Evolutionary Studies, Virology
- Keywords
- Virus origin, Cell disintegration, Progeny vacuole
- Copyright
- © 2017 Abbas
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Virus origin could relate to the act of prey among primitive life forms. PeerJ Preprints 5:e1801v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1801v2
Abstract
Viruses could have originated from the frantic competition to survive among primitive life forms. This is the result of this new hypothesis which proposes that viruses could have originated as remnants of the disintegration of primitive microorganisms. The disintegration can have resulted from an attack of other cells for the purpose of nutrition or imposing control on the nutritional sources. This view is conclusive and can replace old hypotheses and additionally, it is flexible and explains virus diversity.
Author Comment
Version 2 is in Latex format for more coherently readable form. the main changes are: sentence rewording, addition of new sentences coupled with new references and also new figures for more clarification.