Phylogenetic and Phyletic Studies of Informational Genes in Genomes Highlight Existence of a 4th Domain of Life Including Giant Viruses

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Phylogenetic and Phyletic Studies of Informational Genes in Genomes Highlight Existence of a 4^th Domain of Life Including Giant Viruses

Mickaël Boyer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mickaël Boyer, Mohammed-Amine Madoui

Affiliation URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Mohammed-Amine Madoui ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mickaël Boyer, Mohammed-Amine Madoui

Affiliation URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Gregory Gimenez,

Affiliation URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Bernard La Scola,

Affiliation URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Didier Raoult

* E-mail: didier.raoult@gmail.com

Affiliation URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses
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