Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a genus of double-stranded DNA viruses that are the largest of all known viruses.
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- noun A
virus , of the genus Mimivirus, associated with someamoebas ; it has a very largecapsid and complexgenome
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Art, did you see the new paper about ORFans in mimivirus?
A Minimal Genome 2006
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The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists, about half of a micrometre (0.0005 millimeter) in diameter.
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The mimivirus and Sputnik, a smaller type of virus attached to the virus-making factory inside infected cells
Viruses Can Catch Colds: Study Redefines What We Consider to Be Alive | Disinformation 2008
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The other puzzling virus is the mimivirus, first discovered growing inside an amoeba in 1992 but which evaded identification until 2003 because of its enormous size and complex characteristics.
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Three times bigger than other viruses, the mimivirus was found in the DNA of patients with pneumonia, and may account for some of the 20 to 50 percent of pneumonia cases that previously went unidentified.
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The size of this latest mimivirus is unprecedented, prompting researchers to name it a mamavirus.
���Sputnik��� Virus Can Attack Others, But Is it Alive? 2008
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Google mimivirus for example and see what comes up.
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"Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser."
Wired Top Stories Danielle Venton 2011
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CroV, the new virus, is actually the mimivirus' closest known relative, but the two viruses only share about a third of their genes, and many of the critical ones have come from completely different species.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2010
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PNAS paper that will be released later this week, researchers describe the genome of an oceanic mimivirus cousin that has the second largest viral genome ever seen.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2010
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