pandoravirus

plural pandoraviruses

1. Any of the genus Pandoravirus of very large viruses that infect amoebas.

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   To determine whether Submariner_Ps1 proliferation occurred within the P. salinus genome, or whether the multiple Submariner_Ps1 insertions resulted from independent introductions from a different genome (e.g. a viral host), we used 100 bp of immediately flanking sequence from all 30 Submariner_Ps1 insertions to query both amoeba and pandoravirus genomes using BLASTn.

   2015 June 12, Cheng Sun et al., “DNA transposons have colonized the genome of the giant virus Pandoravirus salinus”, in BMC Biology, volume 13, →DOI