Abstract:
INTRODUCTION Viruses are obligatory cellular parasites that can infect bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals. They have probably emerged and evolved in their hosts at the beginning of the tree of life (Forterre, 2006). Virus particles are basically made of one or few genomic ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules encapsulated in a protein shell, the capsid....