Alphapithovirus
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alphapithovirus-206-17449519
title:
Alphapithovirus
text:
Alphapithovirus, first described in a 2014 paper, is a genus of giant virus known from two species, Alphapithovirus sibericum, which infects amoebas, and Alphapithovirus massiliense. It is a DNA based virus and is a member of the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses clade. The 2014 discovery was made when a viable specimen was found in a 30,000-year-old ice core harvested from permafrost in Siberia, Russia.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genus of viruses
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphapithovirus
date created:
2014-03-03T23:43:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:32:54Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Pithovirus_sibericum_sketch.jpg","width":526,"height":323}
fields total:
13
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16