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Given the small size of their genome, the genetic information of viruses is extremely compact, and non-coding regions are very limited as compared to those of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell systems. Viruses utilize cell components at all levels of the replication cycle for their own benefit, not the least being the translation machinery. They have also evolved a number of highly sophisticated strategies...