Another really, really big virus

Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-46

  van Etten, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Giruses; Huge viruses; NCLDV

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CAFETERIA ROENBERGENSIS VIRUS; CHLORELLA VIRUS; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GIRUS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MIMIVIRUS; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; POXVIRUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VIRION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CAFETERIA ROENBERGENSIS; DNA VIRUSES; PROTISTA;

EID: 79952181237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v3010032     Document Type: Article

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