BREAKING THE MOLD. “Not only are the particles of giant viruses bigger than the cells of numerous bacteria and archaea, but also the genomes of pandoraviruses, the current virus world record holders at approximately 2.5 Mb, are substantially larger and richer in gene content than many bacterial and archaeal genomes, from both parasites and free-living microbes, and even the genomes of some parasitic eukaryotes, such as Microsporidia.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022