Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere

  • Jônatas Abrahão,
  • Lorena Silva,
  • Ludmila Santos Silva,
  • Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil,
  • Rodrigo Rodrigues,
  • Thalita Arantes,
  • Felipe Assis,
  • Paulo Boratto,
  • Miguel Andrade,
  • Erna Geessien Kroon,
  • Bergmann Ribeiro,
  • Ivan Bergier,
  • Herve Seligmann,
  • Eric Ghigo,
  • Philippe Colson,
  • Anthony Levasseur,
  • Guido Kroemer,
  • Didier Raoult,
  • Bernard La Scola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03168-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Giant viruses are the largest viruses of the known virosphere and their genetic analysis can provide insights into virus evolution. Here, the authors discover Tupanvirus, a unique giant virus that has an unusually long tail and contains the largest translational apparatus of the known virosphere.