A giant virus in amoebae

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5615, 2003, Pages 2033-

  La Scola, Bernard ^a   Audic, Stéphane ^b   Robert, Catherine ^a   Jungang, Liang ^a   De Lamballerie, Xavier ^c   Drancourt, Michel ^a   Birtles, Richard ^a   Claverie, Jean Michel ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

^c Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

MICROBIOLOGY; VIRUS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; DNA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; LIFE CYCLE; MIMIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; DNA VIRUSES; MIMIVIRUS;

EID: 0242669214     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081867     Document Type: Short Survey

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9. Multiple alignment was done with T-COFFEE software (igs-server.cnrs-mrs.fr) and the tree computed on the EBI server (www.ebi.ac.uk/c(usta(w/) with the default options, ignoring gaps, correcting distances and phylip tree. Accession numbers: Mimivirus, AF529888; Cowpox virus, NP_619839; Lymantria dispar nucleopolyhedrovirus, NP_047757; Paramecium bursia chlorella virus 1, NP_048832; infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus, NP_612246; and African swine fever virus, NP_042738.
10. We thank T. Rowbotham for providing the isolate now identified as Mimivirus; W. F. Denis for helpful discussion; and B. Guimelli, A. Carlioz, and L. Barrassi for technical help. Supported by a grant from the Ministère Français de l'Aménagement du Territoire et de l'Environnement (convention EN00C13).