Biology:Mollivirus sibericum
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Virus classification 
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Mollivirus sibericum is a giant virus discovered in 2015 by French researchers Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie in a 30,000-year-old sample of Siberian permafrost, where the team had previously found the unrelated giant virus Alphapithovirus sibericum. Mollivirus sibericum is a spherical DNA virus with a diameter of 500–600 nanometers (0.5–0.6 μm).[1][2]
Mollivirus sibericum is the fourth ancient virus that scientists have found frozen in permafrost since 2003.[3] It has a sister taxon, Mollivirus kamchatka.[4]
Description
Mollivirus sibericum is an approximately spherical virion 0.6 μm in diameter. It encloses a 651 kb GC-rich genome encoding 523 proteins, of which 64% are open reading frames.[1][5] The host's ribosomal proteins are packaged in the virion.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Legendre, Matthieu; Lartigue, Audrey; Bertaux, Lionel; Jeudy, Sandra; Bartoli, Julia; Lescot, Magali; Alempic, Jean-Marie; Ramus, Claire et al. (8 September 2015). "In-depth study of, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infecting". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (38): E5327–E5335. doi:10.1073/pnas.1510795112. PMID 26351664.
- ↑ Christensen, Jen (11 September 2015). "Ancient squirrel's nest leads to discovery of giant virus". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/11/health/ancient-squirrel-leads-to-giant-virus-discovery/. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ Feltman, Rachel A giant ancient virus was just uncovered in melting ice — and it won't be the last Washington Post. 14 December 2015
- ↑ Christo-Foroux, Eugene; Alempic, Jean-Marie; Lartigue, Audrey; Santini, Sebastien; Labadie, Karine; Legendre, Matthieu; Abergel, Chantal; Claverie, Jean-Michel (31 March 2020). "Characterization of Mollivirus kamchatka, the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant Viruses" (in en). Journal of Virology 94 (8). doi:10.1128/jvi.01997-19. OCLC 9173294733. PMID 31996429.
- ↑ Strom, Marcus (14 December 2014). "Prehistoric 'Frankenvirus' Mollivirus sibericum uncovered in Siberian permafrost". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/prehistoric-frankenvirus-mollivirus-sibericum-uncovered-in-siberian-permafrost-20150909-gjial2.html.
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