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Abstract
The discovery and genome sequencing of the mimivirus, a parasite of Acanthamoeba, blurs the boundary between viruses and cells: the 1.2 Mb genome of the mimivirus is predicted to contain 1262 genes and is much bigger than the genomes of many parasitic bacteria.Mesh:
Year: 2005 PMID: 15753027 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.02.042
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834