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Review
. 2005 Mar 8;15(5):R167-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.02.042.

Virology: Gulliver among the Lilliputians

Eugene V Koonin  1
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Review

Virology: Gulliver among the Lilliputians

Eugene V Koonin. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

The discovery and genome sequencing of the mimivirus, a parasite of Acanthamoeba, blurs the boundary between viruses and cells: the 1.2 Mb genome of the mimivirus is predicted to contain 1262 genes and is much bigger than the genomes of many parasitic bacteria.

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