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mirusvirus

mirusvirus noun: a virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.

Noun

mirusvirus (plural mirusviruses)

  1. A virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.
    • Yet, a substantial fraction of mirusvirus genes, including hallmark transcription machinery genes missing in herpesviruses, are closely related homologues of giant eukaryotic DNA viruses from another viral realm, Varidnaviria.2023 April 19, Morgan Gaïa, Lingjie Meng, Eric Pelletier, Patrick Forterre, Chiara Vanni, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Olivier Jaillon, Patrick Wincker, Hiroyuki Ogata, Mart Krupovic, Tom O. Delmont...

Forms of mirusvirus

pluralmirusviruses

Origin of mirusvirus

From Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising, strange”) + virus.

Questions about mirusvirus

What does mirusvirus mean?
Mirusvirus means a virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.
What part of speech is mirusvirus?
Mirusvirus is a noun.
What is the plural of mirusvirus?
The plural of mirusvirus is mirusviruses.

Words near mirusvirus in the dictionary

  1. mirthy
  2. mirtron
  3. mirtrons
  4. mirudhangam
  5. mirudhangams
  6. mirusvirus
  7. mirusviruses
  8. miruthangam
  9. miruthangams
  10. mirv
  11. mirved

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