NCBI researchers and collaborators discover novel group of giant viruses
An international team of researchers, including NCBI’s Eugene Koonin and Natalya Yutin, has discovered a novel group of giant viruses (dubbed “Klosneuviruses”) with a more complete set of translation machinery genes than any virus that has been described to date. “This discovery significantly expands our understanding of viral evolution,” said Koonin. “These are the most ‘cell-like’ viruses ever identified. However, the computational analysis of the virus genomes shows that these viruses have not evolved from cells by reductive evolution but rather have evolved from smaller viruses, gradually acquiring genes from their hosts at different stages of their evolution.” See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca
NCBI researchers and collaborators discover novel group of giant viruses
Source: Viral Bioinformatics
