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.