virosphere

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Etymology

From viro- +‎ -sphere.

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Noun

virosphere (plural virospheres)

  1. All the areas of the Earth where viruses exist and which are affected by viruses.
    • 2005 April, Curtis Suttle, “The viriosphere: the greatest biological diversity on Earth and driver of global processes”, in Environmental Microbiology, volume 7, number 4, →DOI, pages 481–482:
    • 2015, Merike Sõmera et al., “Overview on Sobemoviruses and a Proposal for the Creation of the Family Sobemoviridae”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI:
      The rationale for including Polemovirus is that although this genus is the product of a recombination between sobemoviruses and poleroviruses, it is still most closely related to Sobemovirus than to any other genus in the virosphere (Figure 5).