Giant Viruses May Simply Be a Frankenstein of Mini Viruses (IMAGE)

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Giant Viruses May Simply Be a Frankenstein of Mini Viruses

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Giant viruses grow by acquiring DNA from other organisms, as shown in this GIF. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 7, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Schulz at Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components."

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Carla Schaffer / AAAS

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