Showing posts with label mimivirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mimivirus. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

Megavirus chilensis takes current award for biggest virus

From Oct 10, 2011 issue of PNAS

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/10/04/1110889108.abstract

isolated from the sea near Chile, somewhat related to the prior record-holder Mimivirus, contains 1120 protein-coding genes, 1.26 Mbp of DNA, and size of ~0.2-0.3 uM

(image from geekosystem.com)