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viro- +‎ -sphere

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virosphere (複数形 virospheres)

1. All the areas of the Earth where viruses exist and which are affected by viruses.
   • 2005 April 1, “The viriosphere: the greatest biological diversity on Earth and driver of global processes”, in Environmental Microbiology, volume 7, number 4, DOI:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.803_11.x, pages 481–482:

   • 2015, Merike Sõmera et al., “Overview on Sobemoviruses and a Proposal for the Creation of the Family Sobemoviridae”, in Viruses‎^[1], volume 7, DOI:10.3390/v7062761:

     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).