These dynamics may lead to an overall trend of increasing genome size over longer timescales; indeed, it has been shown that gene duplication is an important driver of genome size expansion in some nucleocytoviruses [ 82 ], and this may represent the long-term consequences of repeated accordion-like gene family amplifications.
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Rise of the viral giants: common themes underlying genome gigantism in eukaryotic viruses and bacteriophages.
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