Sentences with phrase «about giant viruses»
There is a small news item about giant viruses infecting zooplankton which affects ocean carbon flows.
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In addition to sequencing the woolly mammoth genome, Hendrik has reconstructed the diets of extinct giant sloths, debunked a hypothesis about the origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sequenced the genome of the bacterium that caused Black Death.
Including information about other viruses and virus - like elements: adenoviruses that infect animals and are one of the causes of the common cold; certain bacteriophages that infect bacteria; transpovirons which infect giant viruses; and a Tetrahymena transposable element (Tlr1), the virus «evolutionary tree» appears as a network of swapped genes.
The recent discovery of virophages inside the giant viruses, which in turn infect amoeba, has led to speculation about their origin and their relationship to other viruses and small transposable genetic elements.
In addition, recent findings about large DNA viruses have led to hypotheses about the role of RNA and DNA viruses as precursors to single - celled microbes with and without nuclei, and giant viruses as the descendants of eukaryotes through reductive evolution (Charles Siebert, Discover, March 2006; and GiantVirus.org).
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