Viruses with more than 1,000 genes: Mamavirus, a new Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus strain, and reannotation of mimivirus genes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 737-742

  Colsonf, Philippe ^a   Yutinf, Natalya ^b   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^b   Robert, Catherine ^a   Fournous, Ghislain ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Mimivirus; Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses; Viral genome

Indexed keywords

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

POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA VIRUS; GENETICS; MIMIVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA VIRUSES; GENOME, VIRAL; MIMIVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 80054809678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr048     Document Type: Article

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