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    Mimiviridae is a family of viruses. Amoeba and other protists serve as natural hosts. The family is divided in up to 4 subfamilies. Viruses in this family...
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  • of the Mimiviridae family, also encodes enzymes for DNA repair. Traditionally only these viruses have been grouped into a family Mimiviridae. Later it...
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    found infecting giant viruses of Mimiviridae group A. However, they are able to grow in amoebae infected by Mimiviridae of any of the groups A, B, and C...
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    Mimivirus (category Mimiviridae)
    Mimivirus is a genus of giant viruses, in the family Mimiviridae. Amoeba serve as their natural hosts. This genus contains a single identified species...
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    viruses have dsDNA genomes and they are classified into several families: Mimiviridae, Pithoviridae, Pandoraviridae, Phycodnaviridae, and the Mollivirus genus...
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  • Mamavirus (category Mimiviridae)
    the Group I family Mimiviridae. The virus is exceptionally large, and larger than many bacteria. Mamavirus and other mimiviridae belong to nucleocytoplasmic...
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    to be a member of the family Mimiviridae, along with the other amoeba-infecting viruses. Members of the family Mimiviridae includes Acanthamoeba polyphaga...
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  • phylogenetically related mimivirus and megavirus, which belong to the family Mimiviridae (aka Megaviridae), and are distinguished by their large capsid diameters...
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    Bodo saltans virus (category Mimiviridae)
    The Bodo saltans virus is a giant virus of the Mimiviridae family that infects the protozoa Bodo saltans. It has a genome of 1.39 megabases, one of the...
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    virus family Mimiviridae. Zamilon is restricted in its range of helper viruses; it can be supported by viruses from Mimivirus-like Mimiviridae lineages B...
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