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Mimivirus, a giant DNA virus (i.e. “girus”) infecting species of the genus Acanthamoeba, was first identified in 2003. With a particle size of 0.7μm in diameter, and a genome size of 1.2Mb encoding more than 900 proteins, it is the most complex virus described to date. Beyond its unusual size, the Mimivirus genome was found to contain the first viral homologues of many genes thought to be the trademark...
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