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Giant Viruses – Big Surprises

2019-04-15

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Viruses are the most prevalent infectious agents, populating almost every ecosystem on earth. Most viruses carry only a handful of genes supporting their replication and the production of capsids. It came as a great surprise in 2003 when the first giant virus was discovered and found to have a >1Mbp genome encoding almost a thousand proteins. Following this first discovery, dozens of giant virus strains across...

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Literature Corpus work: c3997ef2-ce0e-5eab-860a-18a843414747
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201904.0172.v1

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