Sentence examples for big viruses from inspiring English sources

It shares only five proteins with Pandoravirus, and to the extent it has any relatives the closest seem to be another family of big viruses called the Marseilleviridae.What this intriguing mess does to the definition of a virus is a good question (such questions are why Pandoravirus was given that name).

My feeling is that the authors's interpretation (independent evolution of "giant" viruses from "big" viruses) is the correct one, in agreement with previous suggestion that NCLDV originated from smaller viruses predating LUCA [ 31] and the recent accordion model for genome evolution of Megavirales proposed by Jonathan Filée [ 32].

But Gertrud wasn't a victim – she was, of course, a master criminal and expert biochemist who took great pleasure in making a really big, bad virus.

I have never met anyone anywhere ever who claimed to be a big Virus Syndicate fan.

Thinking of a cell as a big virus is very speculative.

The different NCLDVs evolved principally through genome reduction either of a big virus or of another organism, one that had at least two OBP genes (Fig. 4).

This virus was one of the first big virus scares for OS X users.

And along the way the biggest viruses got bigger.

In fact, the very biggest viruses are only just as big as the very smallest bacteria.

French researchers are now reporting the discovery of the biggest virus yet.

I am among those scientists that do not believe there is a distinction between the classical world and the quantum world, as quantum effects have now been demonstrated at the macroscopic level, say, in superconductivity, and also quantum interference and wave particle duality for particles as big as viruses.