Abstract
Coviruses are viruses with the property that their genetic information is divided up among two or more different viral particles. I model the evolution of coviruses using information on both viral virulence and the interactions between viruses and molecules that parasitize them: satellite viruses, satellite RNAs and defective interfering viruses. The model ultimately, and inevitably contains within it single-species dynamics as well as mutualistic, parasitic, cooperative and competitive relationships. The model shows that coexistence between coviruses and the self-sufficient viruses that spawned them is unlikely, in the sense that the quantitative conditions for coexistence are not easy to satisfy I also describe an abrupt transition from mutualistic two-species to single-species dynamics, showing a new sense in which questions such as 'Is a lichen one species or two?' can be given a definite answer.
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