Group Group I (dsDNA) Genus Faustovirus | Family Asfarviridae | |
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Similar Marseillevirus, Asfarviridae, Pithovirus, Mollivirus sibericum, Pandoravirus | ||
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.
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