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Supersized Viruses Break Records, Raise Questions (6 of 10)

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Supersized Viruses Break Records, Raise Questions (6 of 10)

image: This is an electron microscopy image of a Pandoravirus particle. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 19, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nadège Philippe at CNRS in Marseille, France, and colleagues was titled, "Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes." view more 

Credit: [Image courtesy of Chantal Abergel / Jean-Michel Claverie]


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