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“Чарльз Дарвін емоційно зазначив в одному з листів до ботаніка Ейси Ґрея: «Не можу переконати себе, що милосердний і всемогутній Господь навмисно створив іхневмонідів, маючи саме такий намір — щоб вони живилися й зростали в тілі живої гусені…».”
― Frank Ryan, Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics--Why We Need the Viruses That Plague Us

“Since the tissue and immune barriers of the orginal hosts were very similar o those of the new host, these virus would posses pre-envolved strategies that would work pretty much in the new host as they did in a very important characteristic in common. Once they entered an individual, or species, the never wnet away, not in terms of the entire affected population, or even the species. The biological term for such a relationship is "persistence" and viruses are said to be "persistant-viruses". The very nature of such a long-term, and inevitably intimate, relationship has a major implications for the virus-host evolutionary dynamics.”
― Frank Ryan