Faustovirus
| Faustovirus | |
|---|---|
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| Cryo electron microscopy reconstruction of Faustovirus, from EMD-8144[1] | |
| Virus classification | |
| Group: | Group I (dsDNA) |
| Family: | Asfarviridae |
| Genus: | Faustovirus |
Faustovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae associated with humans. The virus was first isolated in 2015 [2] and shown be around 0.2 micromenters in diameter with a double stranded DNA genome of 466 kilobases predicted to encoding 451 proteins. Unusually, faustovirus genes have been shown to contain introns.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Structure of faustovirus, a large dsDNA virus". doi:10.1073/pnas.1523999113.
- ↑ "Faustovirus, an asfarvirus-related new lineage of giant viruses infecting amoebae". doi:10.1128/JVI.00115-15.
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