Talk:Megavirales Genetics from Mimivirus to Chilensis

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The Evolution of Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses I am a little confused about the way you are phrasing this statement " how can these viruses contain so many genes required for life, and still not be considered life" - isn't that the current debate about viruses in general, not just specifically these viruses? it seems that you are suggesting that this is an exclusive argument to just mega viruses?

Support For Megavirales as a Fourth Domain spelling error here? When using DNA ligase Yutin and Koonin found that a presence-absence analysis of a particular kind of DNA ligase showed clear progression and [separtion] of an ancestral and current form.

You mention a good point here about differentiation of phylogeny by choice of genes. I think that it would be interesting if you could mention why the current form of gene classification is chosen? what standard class of genes are generally looked at to build a phylogeny.

Interesting research, is small pox the only megavirus like human virus that has been investigated?

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