Size isn’t only mystery of huge virus
Strange replication method and unusual genetic sequence among the mysteries
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Pandoravirus salinus, the largest virus ever identified, has been found on the seafloor off the coast of Chile.
Courtesy of Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie