Important study describing a new phylum of herpesvirus relatives that is abundant in the ocean -
Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05962-4
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Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05962-4
I was honored to be asked to review this paper! Wonderful work.
#virology #viruses #herpesviruses #giantViruses
Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses - Nature
A phylogeny-guided genome-resolved metagenomic analysis of DNA viruses in the ocean reveals atypical plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses that form a putative new phylum dubbed Mirusviricota.Nature