Related giant viruses in distant locations and different habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus represents a third lineage of the Mimiviridae that is close to the Megavirus lineage

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1324-1330

  Yoosuf, Niyaz ^a   Yutin, Natalya ^b   Colson, Philippe ^a,c   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^b   Pagnier, Isabelle ^a   Robert, Catherine ^a   Azza, Said ^a   Klose, Thomas ^d   Wong, Jimson ^d   Rossmann, Michael G ^d   La Scola, Bernard ^a,c   Raoult, Didier ^a,c   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant virus; Horizontal gene transfer; Megavirales; Megavirus; Mimiviridae; Mimivirus; Moumouvirus; Nucleo cytoplasmic large DNA viruses; Viral genome

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; DNA VIRUSES; MIMIVIRUS;

EID: 84876156192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs109     Document Type: Article

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