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Giant viruses: The difficult breaking of multiple epistemological barriers

10 Mar 2016

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The discovery of the first "giant virus", Mimivirus, in 2003 could solely have been that of an exceptional freak, a blind alley of evolution as occasionally encountered in biology, albeit without conceptual significance. On the contrary, once broken this epistemological barrier, additional unrelated families of giant viruses such as the Pandoraviruses, the Pithoviruses and most recently Mollivirus, were quickly...

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PMID: 26972873
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.015

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