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The origins of giant viruses, virophages and their relatives in host genomes
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Giant viruses have revealed a number of surprises that challenge conventions on what constitutes a virus. The Samba virus newly isolated in Brazil expands the known distribution of giant mimiviruses to a near-global scale. These viruses, together with the transposon-related virophages that infect them, pose a number of questions about their evolutionary origins that need to be considered in the light of the complex entanglement between host, virus and virophage genomes.
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- 10.1186/s12915-014-0051-y
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- BioMed Central
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- Volume:
- 12
- Article number:
- 51
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-06-24
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1741-7007
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English
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- 2014
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- © 2014 Katzourakis and Aswad; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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