Biology:Pandoraviridae
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Short description: Family of viruses
| Pandoraviridae | |
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| Pandoravirus virion | |
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| Group: | Group I (dsDNA)
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| Order: | Megavirales
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| Family: | Pandoraviridae
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Pandoraviridae is a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect amoebae. There is only one genus in this family: Pandoravirus. Several species in this genus have been described, including Pandoravirus dulcis, Pandoravirus salinus and Pandoravirus yedoma.[1][2]
History
The viruses were discovered in 2013.[1][2]
Description
The viruses in this family are the second largest known virus (~1 micrometer) in capsid length, after Pithovirus (1.5 micrometer).[3] Pandoravirus has the largest viral genome known, containing double-stranded DNA of 1.9 to 2.5 megabase pairs.[4][1]
Evolution
These viruses appear to be related to the phycodnaviruses.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yong, Ed (18 July 2013). "Giant viruses open Pandora's box". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.13410.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nadège Philippe; Matthieu Legendre; Gabriel Doutre et al. (July 2013). "Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes". Science 341 (6143): 281–6. doi:10.1126/science.1239181. PMID 23869018. Bibcode: 2013Sci...341..281P. https://hal-cea.archives-ouvertes.fr/cea-00862677/file/phi.pdf.
- ↑ Sirucek, Stefan (3 March 2014). "Ancient "Giant Virus" Revived From Siberian Permafrost". National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140303-giant-virus-permafrost-siberia-pithovirus-pandoravirus-science/.
- ↑ Brumfiel, Geoff (18 July 2013). "World's Biggest Virus May Have Ancient Roots". National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/18/203298244/worlds-biggest-virus-may-have-ancient-roots.
- ↑ "Pandoraviruses are highly derived phycodnaviruses". Biol. Direct 8: 25. 2013. doi:10.1186/1745-6150-8-25. PMID 24148757.
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