Viruses, which parasitize giant viruses, which infect a cell… ☣️
Giant viruses infecting amoebae, single-celled eukaryotic organisms, can be parasitized by other viruses, virophages, as well as mobile genetic elements called transpovirons and contained in both categories of viruses. In a study published in Nature Communicationsscientists deciphered the interactions within this complex quadripartite system by analyzing the expression of their respective genes. Virophages, viruses of … Read more