Yaravirus: A novel 80-nm virus infecting Acanthamoeba castellanii [Microbiology]

Here we report the discovery of Yaravirus, a lineage of amoebal virus with a puzzling origin and evolution. Yaravirus presents 80-nm-sized particles and a 44,924-bp dsDNA genome encoding for 74 predicted proteins. Yaravirus genome annotation showed that none of its genes matched with sequences of known organisms at the nucleotide...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - July 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Paulo V. M. Boratto, Graziele P. Oliveira, Talita B. Machado, Ana Claudia S. P. Andrade, Jean–Pierre Baudoin, Thomas Klose, Frederik Schulz, Said Azza, Philippe Decloquement, Eric Chabriere, Philippe Colson, Anthony Levasseur, Bernard La Scola, Jona Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research