Huge viruses may open 'Pandora's' box: French study
These viruses are so big they might just be your ancestors.
These viruses are so big they might just be your ancestors.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2013
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(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the Sputnik virus, thought to play a role in illnesses caused by eating raw fish.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the current domain of life, we are familiar with the three branches: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. However, Jonathan Eisen of UC Davis and his team have published possible evidence ...
Researchers have identified a marine giant virus that infects Cafeteria roenbergensis, a widespread planktonic predator that occupies a key position in marine food webs, according to a study.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 2, 2010
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UBC researchers have identified the world's largest marine virus--an unusually complex 'mimi-like virus' that infects an ecologically important and widespread planktonic predator.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2010
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Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the largest known virus, findings that could help scientists studying how the simplest life evolved and whether the unusual virus ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2009
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Mimivirus is a viral genus containing a single identified species named Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV), or is a group of phylogenetically related large viruses (designated usually MimiN). In colloquial speech, APMV is more commonly referred to as just “mimivirus”. Until October 2011, when a larger virus Megavirus chilensis was described, it had largest capsid diameter of all known viruses. Mimivirus has a large and complex genome compared with most other viruses.
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