Sentences with phrase «other giant virus»

Since then, a handful of other giant virus groups have been found.

Some small viruses, called «virophages» help their hosts protecting against other giant viruses.

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Dubbed Klosneuviruses, the giant virus contains a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any other virus known to date.

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

But after discovering a novel group of giant viruses with a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any other virus known to date, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, believe that this group (dubbed «Klosneuviruses») significantly increases our understanding of viral evolution.

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.

Claverie and Abergel have helped to discover other so - called giant viruses — including the first, called Mimivirus, in 2003, and two others, known as Pandoraviruses, last year (see «Giant viruses open Pandora's box&raqgiant viruses — including the first, called Mimivirus, in 2003, and two others, known as Pandoraviruses, last year (see «Giant viruses open Pandora's box&raqGiant viruses open Pandora's box»).