Pandoraviruses are highly derived phycodnaviruses.
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SUBMITTER: Yutin N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3924356 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
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Pandoraviruses are highly derived phycodnaviruses.
Yutin Natalya N Koonin Eugene V EV
Biology direct 20131023
The recently discovered Pandoraviruses are by far the largest viruses known, with their 2 megabase genomes exceeding in size the genomes of numerous bacteria and archaea. Pandoraviruses show a distant relationship with other nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) of eukaryotes, lack some of the NCLDV core genes and in particular do not appear to be specifically related to the other, better characterized family of giant viruses, the Mimiviridae. Here we report phylogenetic analysis of 6 core ...[more]
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