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Have you heard about the similarities between the Caudovirales (tailed phages) and the Herpesevirales (a eukaryotic viral order)? Juan Andrade-Martinez and colleagues at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia compared 2000 Caudovirales genomes and 600 Herpesvirales genomes, and have shown strong evidence for an evolutionary relationship between the two orders.