- Cafeteria roenbergensis virus
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Cafeteria roenbergensis virus Virus classification Group: Group I (dsDNA) Family: Mimiviridae Species Cafeteria roenbergensis virus
Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (CroV) is a giant virus that infects the marine zooplankton Cafeteria roenbergensis [1]. CroV has the largest genome of any known marine virus, consisting of ~730,000 base pairs of double-stranded DNA. Among its 544 predicted protein-coding genes are several that are usually restricted to cellular organisms, such as translation factors and enzymes for DNA repair and carbohydrate synthesis. CroV is distantly related to Mimivirus and belongs to a group of viruses known as Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses.[2] CroV is itself parasitized by a virophage named "Mavirus".[3][4]
References
- ^ Matthias G. Fischer, Michael J. Allen, William H. Wilson, and Curtis A. Suttle (2010). "Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (45): 19508–19513. Bibcode 2010PNAS..10719508F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1007615107.
- ^ Matthias Fischer. "Suttle Laboratory Marine Virology and Microbiology: Profile: Matthias Fischer". Suttle Laboratory. http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/~suttle/?p=matthias. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ John Timmer. "A virus so large it gets viruses". Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/a-virus-so-large-it-gets-viruses.ars. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
- ^ Fischer, M. G.; Suttle, C. A. (2011). "A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons". Science 332 (6026): 231–234. doi:10.1126/science.1199412. PMID 21385722.
External links
- Biodiversity: More complicated than you think. A new, giant virus is confounding old certainties, The Economist, Oct 28th 2010
Categories:- Virus stubs
- Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses
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