Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known. Is it an evolutionary bridge between nonliving viruses and living organisms, or is it just an anomaly? Aa Aa Aa Viruses are small and fairly ...
‘I said, “Jesus, what is this?!”’ They named it Mimivirus. The discovery stunned the field of virology, which was concerned largely with diseases caused by viruses in humans, livestock and ...
Analysis of the giant Mimivirus may support this hypothesis. This virus contains a relatively large repertoire of putative genes associated with translation — genes that may be remnants of a ...