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Characteristics of virophages and giant viruses

Author(s) -

Beata TokarzDeptuła,

Paulina Czupryńska,

Agata Poniewierska-Baran,

Wiesław Deptuła

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

acta biochimica polonica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452

H-Index - 78

eISSN - 1734-154X

pISSN - 0001-527X

DOI - 10.18388/abp.2018_2631

Subject(s) - giant virus , biology , metagenomics , viral evolution , virology , genetics , gene , genome

Five years after being discovered in 2003, some giant viruses were demonstrated to play a role of the hosts for virophages, their parasites, setting out a novel and yet unknown regulatory mechanism of the giant viruses presence in an aqueous. So far, 20 virophages have been registered and 13 of them have been described as a metagenomic material, which indirectly impacts the number of single- and multi-cell organisms, the environment where giant viruses replicate.

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