De onde vêm os vírus?

   / @atilaiamarino   Parasites that got simpler? Genetic elements leaking from our DNA? Viruses cause so many diseases that you'd expect us to already know how they came to be. But behind this simple question lies a series of astonishing phenomena about the most numerous organisms on the planet. Script and presentation: Atila Iamarino - Bluesky @atila.bsky.social Instagram @oatila Direction and Production: Paloma Sato Image Composition, Editing, Animation and Thumb: Giulia Donadio: Instagram: @giulia_donadio Source: https://g1.globo.com/mg/minas-gerais/... Krupovic, M., Dolja, V. V., & Koonin, E. V. (2019). Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17(7), 449-458. Koonin, E. V., Kuhn, J. H., Dolja, V. V., & Krupovic, M. (2024). Megataxonomy and global ecology of the virosphere. The ISME Journal, 18(1), wrad042. Koonin, E. V., Krupovic, M., & Dolja, V. V. (2023). The global virome: How much diversity and how many independent origins?. Environmental Microbiology, 25(1), 40-44. Krupovic, M., Dolja, V. V., & Koonin, E. V. (2023). The virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor and eukaryogenesis. Nature Microbiology, 8(6), 1008-1017. Babajanyan, S. G., Wolf, Y. I., Khachatryan, A., Allahverdyan, A., Lopez-Garcia, P., & Koonin, E. V. (2023). Coevolution of reproducers and replicators at the origin of life and the conditions for the origin of genomes. Annals of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(14), e2301522120.