How the virophage compels the need to readdress the classification of microbes

Virology

Volumn 477, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-124

  Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Giant viruses; Marseillevirus; Mimivirus; TRUC; Virophages Megavirales

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; EUKARYOTE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIMIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRION; VIROPHAGE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIMIVIRIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MIMIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MIMIVIRIDAE;

EID: 84930004955     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.11.014     Document Type: Review

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