Viruses have been infecting their host cells since the dawn of life, and this extremely long-term coevolution gave rise to some surprising consequences for the entire tree of life. It is hypothesised that viruses might have contributed to the formation of the first cellular life form, or that even the eukaryotic cell nucleus originates from an infection by a coated virus. The continuous struggle between viruses and their hosts to maintain at least a constant fitness level led to the development of an unceasing arms race, where weapons are often shuttled between the participants. In this literature review we try to give a short insight into some general consequences or traits of virus-host coevolution, and after this we zoom in to the viral clades of adenoviruses, herpesviruses, nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses, polyomaviruses and, finally, circoviruses.

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以动物和人类DNA病毒为重点的病毒-宿主共进化。

从生命的曙光开始，病毒就一直在感染其宿主细胞，这种长期的共同进化给整个生命树带来了一些令人惊讶的后果。假设病毒可能有助于第一个细胞生命形式的形成，或者甚至真核细胞核也都来自被包膜病毒的感染。病毒与其宿主之间不断进行斗争以保持至少恒定的健康水平，导致了军备竞赛的不断发展，军备之间经常穿梭武器。在这篇文献综述中，我们试图简短地了解病毒-宿主共进化的一些一般后果或特征，然后，我们放大到腺病毒，疱疹病毒，核质大DNA病毒，多瘤病毒以及最终的病毒进化枝。