Giant virus

A giant virus, sometimes referred to as a girus, is a very large virus, some of which are larger than typical bacteria.^[1]^[2] All known giant viruses belong to the phylum Nucleocytoviricota.^[3]

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[1] Reynolds KA (2010). "Mysterious Microbe in Water Challenges the Very Definition of a Virus" (PDF). Water Conditioning & Purification. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-19.

[2] Ogata H, Toyoda K, Tomaru Y, Nakayama N, Shirai Y, Claverie JM, Nagasaki K (October 2009). "Remarkable sequence similarity between the dinoflagellate-infecting marine girus and the terrestrial pathogen African swine fever virus". Virology Journal. 6 (178): 178. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-6-178. PMC 2777158. PMID 19860921.

[AmSci-099-4-3] Van Etten JL (July–August 2011). "Giant Viruses". American Scientist. 99 (4): 304–311. doi:10.1511/2011.91.304. Archived from the original on 2011-06-21.

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