Viruses as prey?

[Vasconcelos Costa 385]

> From: york at mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu (Ian A. York)
> To: "bionet.virology mail newsgroup" <bionet-news at dl.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Viruses as prey?
> 
> I must have missed it, because I'm sure that someone in this 
> viruses-as-prey thread must have already pointed at hepatitis delta 
> virus, adeno-associated virus, and some of the plant viroids.  If not, 
> then I just have.
> 
> Ian
> 
> -- 
> Ian York   (york at mbcrr.harvard.edu)
> Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston MA 02115
> Phone (617)-632-3921     Fax  (617)-632-2627
> 
> 
> 
This message is very cryptic for me. Is Ian suggesting that those viruses
are preys to HBV, adenoviruses (what else, in the case of viroids?)? Or are
they the predators? I can't imagine anything in their biology that could
justify any of the assertions.

Joao

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