Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture

Mickaël Boyer (1) , Saïd Azza (1) , Lina Barrassi (1) , Thomas Klose (2) , Angélique Campocasso (1) , Isabelle Pagnier (1) , Ghislain Fournous (1) , Audrey Borg (1) , Catherine Robert (1) , Xinzheng Zhang (2) , Christelle Desnues (1) , Bernard Henrissat (3) , Michael Rossmann (2) , Bernard La Scola (1) , Didier Raoult (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 Department of Biological Sciences [Lafayette IN]
3 AFMB - Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Mickaël Boyer, Saïd Azza, Lina Barrassi, Thomas Klose, Angélique Campocasso, et al.. Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011, 108 (25), pp.10296-10301. ⟨hal-02008670⟩