Mimivirus and the emerging concept of "giant" virus

Virus Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 133-144

  Claverie, Jean Michel ^a,b   Ogata, Hiroyuki ^a   Audic, Stéphane ^a   Abergel, Chantal ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a,b  

^a CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome; Large DNA viruses; Mimivirus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA VIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS GENOME;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA VIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; DNA VIRUSES; MIMIVIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33645061768     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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