The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7209, 2008, Pages 100-104

  La Scola, Bernard ^a   Desnues, Christelle ^a   Pagnier, Isabelle ^a   Robert, Catherine ^a   Barrassi, Lina ^a   Fournous, Ghislain ^b   Merchat, Michèle ^a   Suzan Monti, Marie ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^c,d   Koonin, Eugene ^e   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Climespace   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA PRIMASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; INTEGRASE; TRANSPOSASE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME; DATA SET; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGY; PARASITE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN; VIRUS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPUTNIK VIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; AMOEBA (GENUS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MIMIVIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 51349125147     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07218     Document Type: Article

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