Giant viruses, scientifically termed Nucleocytoviricota, are a virus group identified just two decades ago, primarily infecting single-celled organisms. These viruses rival bacteria in size ...

"Detailed analysis of this virus had to wait until Dr. Thomy joined the lab, but it was worth the wait." Previous discoveries have shown that, like FloV-SA2, other so-called 'giant' viruses code ...

“It was by chance that we encountered the first giant virus,” says Chantal Abergel, a virologist at Aix-Marseille University in France. “It was Mimivirus, and it was actually mistaken for a bacterium.

Supposing the resistance might have roots in a CRISPR-like mechanism, Raoult’s team sequenced genomes from the three giant-virus lineages, and found a 28-nucleotide stretch of DNA in lineage A ...

With the discovery of Mimivirus — the largest, most complex virus currently known — these assumptions may need to be reevaluated. This giant virus has a much larger size and bigger genome than ...

Deciphering the genomes of 16 Acanthamoeba species does not provide evidence of integration of known giant virus-associated mobile genetic elements.