Art Illustration Capturing Giant Virus Genomic Diversity (IMAGE)

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Art Illustration Capturing Giant Virus Genomic Diversity

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Art illustration capturing giant virus genomic diversity. This image complements a January 22, 2020, Nature paper led by researchers at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute uncovering a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that belong to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The team reconstructed 2,074 genomes of large and giant viruses from more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from sampling sites around the world, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses.

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Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab

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