Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses

A distinct class of infectious agents, the virophages that infect giant viruses of the Mimiviridae family, has been recently described. Here we report the simultaneous discovery of a giant virus of Acanthamoeba polyphaga (Lentille virus) that contains an integrated genome of a virophage (Sputnik 2),...

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Main Authors: Desnues, Christelle, La Scola, Bernard, Yutin, Natalya, Fournous, Ghislain, Robert, Catherine, Azza, Saïd, Jardot, Priscilla, Monteil, Sonia, Campocasso, Angélique, Koonin, Eugene V., Raoult, Didier
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2012
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497776/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23071316
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208835109
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