giant virus

Also known as girus, giant viruses, giruses

giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses that have extremely large genomes compared to other viruses and contain many unique genes not found in other life forms

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Giant virus vs amoeba: fight for supremacy.Virology journal · 2019
Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022
Giant variations in giant virus genome packaging.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2023
Host-virus interactions and defense mechanisms for giant viruses.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020
Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2019

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