mSystems (Aug 2021)

Giant Virus-Eukaryote Interactions as Ecological and Evolutionary Driving Forces

  • Chuan Ku

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00737-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4

Abstract

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Giant DNA viruses of eukaryotes are notable for their extraordinary genome size and coding capacity. Once thought to be oddities in the virus world, these elusive microbes have turned out to be widely occurring in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems and are commonly associated with diverse hosts, in particular microbial eukaryotes.