Sentences with phrase «infect giant viruses»

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.

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With a diameter in the region of a micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria.

Recently discovered giant, amoeba - infecting viruses blur the line between life and nonlife — although they rely on their hosts for essential biological functions, the bacteria - sized viruses have complex genomes.

The finding suggests that Sputnik infects more than one group of viruses and can shuttle genetic material from one giant virus to another.

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.

The comprehensive phylogenomic analysis compares giant viruses that infect amoeba with tiny viruses known as virophages and to several groups of transposable elements.

Although giant viruses almost always target amoebae, Christelle Desnues, a virologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Marseilles, last year discovered signs that another giant virus, Marseillevirus, had infected an 11 - month - old boy.

From the giant screaming spider - scorpion hybrids the «Gladers» call «Grievers,» to the virus - infected zombies they call «Cranks,» to a return of a shady, long - thought - dead character from their past (who could've been an entirely new character and it wouldn't have mattered), to Thomas» middle - finger salute to Janson, the callbacks to the previous two films don't do much but add padding to the narrative.

At the end of the level there's usually some sort of big boss to take out (like another V Virus infected girl — or a giant mechanized robot), however aside from that there's not too much variation.

There is a small news item about giant viruses infecting zooplankton which affects ocean carbon flows.