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Faustovirus

Faustovirus
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Cryo electron microscopy reconstruction of Faustovirus, from EMD-8144
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Family: Asfarviridae
Genus: Faustovirus

Faustovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae associated with humans. The virus was first isolated in 2015 and shown be around 0.2 micrometers in diameter with a double stranded DNA genome of 466 kilobases predicted to encode 451 proteins. Unusually for a virus, faustovirus genes have been shown to contain introns.


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