Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses
Virology has long been viewed through the prism of human, cattle, or plant diseases, leading to a largely incomplete picture of the viral world. The serendipitous discovery of the first giant virus visible under a light microscope (i.e., >0.3 μm in diameter), mimivirus, opened a new era of enviro...
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crasmicro:10.1128/jvi.01997-19 2024-09-15T18:15:52+00:00 Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses Christo-Foroux, Eugene Alempic, Jean-Marie Lartigue, Audrey Santini, Sebastien Labadie, Karine Legendre, Matthieu Abergel, Chantal Claverie, Jean-Michel Pfeiffer, Julie K. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique French Ministry of Defense | Direction Générale de l'Armement 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01997-19 https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JVI.01997-19 en eng American Society for Microbiology https://journals.asm.org/non-commercial-tdm-license Journal of Virology volume 94, issue 8 ISSN 0022-538X 1098-5514 journal-article 2020 crasmicro https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01997-19 2024-08-12T04:05:30Z Virology has long been viewed through the prism of human, cattle, or plant diseases, leading to a largely incomplete picture of the viral world. The serendipitous discovery of the first giant virus visible under a light microscope (i.e., >0.3 μm in diameter), mimivirus, opened a new era of environmental virology, now incorporating protozoan-infecting viruses. Planet-wide isolation studies and metagenome analyses have shown the presence of giant viruses in most terrestrial and aquatic environments, including upper Pleistocene frozen soils. Those systematic surveys have led authors to propose several new distinct families, including the Mimiviridae , Marseilleviridae , Faustoviridae , Pandoraviridae , and Pithoviridae . We now propose to introduce one additional family, the Molliviridae , following the description of M. kamchatka , the first modern relative of M. sibericum , previously isolated from 30,000-year-old arctic permafrost. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kamchatka permafrost ASM Journals (American Society for Microbiology) Journal of Virology 94 8 |
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Virology has long been viewed through the prism of human, cattle, or plant diseases, leading to a largely incomplete picture of the viral world. The serendipitous discovery of the first giant virus visible under a light microscope (i.e., >0.3 μm in diameter), mimivirus, opened a new era of environmental virology, now incorporating protozoan-infecting viruses. Planet-wide isolation studies and metagenome analyses have shown the presence of giant viruses in most terrestrial and aquatic environments, including upper Pleistocene frozen soils. Those systematic surveys have led authors to propose several new distinct families, including the Mimiviridae , Marseilleviridae , Faustoviridae , Pandoraviridae , and Pithoviridae . We now propose to introduce one additional family, the Molliviridae , following the description of M. kamchatka , the first modern relative of M. sibericum , previously isolated from 30,000-year-old arctic permafrost. |
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Pfeiffer, Julie K. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique French Ministry of Defense | Direction Générale de l'Armement |
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Christo-Foroux, Eugene Alempic, Jean-Marie Lartigue, Audrey Santini, Sebastien Labadie, Karine Legendre, Matthieu Abergel, Chantal Claverie, Jean-Michel |
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Christo-Foroux, Eugene Alempic, Jean-Marie Lartigue, Audrey Santini, Sebastien Labadie, Karine Legendre, Matthieu Abergel, Chantal Claverie, Jean-Michel Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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Christo-Foroux, Eugene Alempic, Jean-Marie Lartigue, Audrey Santini, Sebastien Labadie, Karine Legendre, Matthieu Abergel, Chantal Claverie, Jean-Michel |
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Christo-Foroux, Eugene |
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Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka , the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses |
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characterization of mollivirus kamchatka , the first modern representative of the proposed molliviridae family of giant viruses |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01997-19 https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JVI.01997-19 |
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