Sunday, November 13, 2011

PNAS: the world’s largest virus has more than one thousand genes.

  Waters in Chile, scientists have discovered the world's biggest kid in the virus, with more than 1,000 genes. This finding surprised scientists into being. This virus is called "Megavirus chilensis", genome contains close to 126 million base pairs, is the most complex DNA viruses, bigger than the previous record holder - 2003 virus strains isolated from large to be 6.5%.
This giant virus is a research station in Chile near the extraction of water samples found. Viruses and bacteria, their heads are often smaller, but can not reproduce on their own, need to enter the host cell to reproduce. Virus and other viruses can be infected with bacteria spine bone single-celled amoeba, etc.

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