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Viruses get sick too

04.11.2008

A group of French virologists found in the largest known viruses - the so-called mimi viruses - parasites living on them, smaller viruses.

Mimivirus is comparable in size to the smallest of bacteria, its diameter is 400 nanometers (four times larger than the largest previously known viruses). It has over 900 genes. It turned out that a small virus with 21 genes can get inside such a giant, capture part of its genes and prevent reproduction.

Experts say that such parasites are unlikely to be found in viruses that cause human diseases. First, human viruses are too small; secondly, they are already well studied.

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