Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition

P. Colson (1) , Y. Ominami , A. Hisada , B. La Scola (1) , Didier Raoult (1)

1 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections

Domaines: Virologie; Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

P. Colson, Y. Ominami, A. Hisada, B. La Scola, Didier Raoult. Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019, 25 (2), pp.147-154. ⟨10.1016/j.cmi.2018.09.010⟩. ⟨hal-02005805⟩