| Pandoraviridae | |
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| Pandoravirus virion | |
| Virus classification | |
| Group: | Group I (dsDNA)
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| Family: | Pandoraviridae
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Pandoraviridae is a proposed family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect amoebae. There is only one genus in this family: Pandoravirus. Several species in this genus have been described, including Pandoravirus dulcis, Pandoravirus salinus and Pandoravirus yedoma.[1][2]
- ^ Yong, Ed (18 July 2013). "Giant viruses open Pandora's box". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2013.13410. S2CID 88440241.
- ^ Nadège Philippe; Matthieu Legendre; Gabriel Doutre; et al. (July 2013). "Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes" (PDF). Science. 341 (6143): 281–6. Bibcode:2013Sci...341..281P. doi:10.1126/science.1239181. PMID 23869018. S2CID 16877147.