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They Might Be (Viral) Giants

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 27, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 08:02
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A cool link for today for the title alone, but discovery of an oceanic cousin of the Mimivirus — the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus — which has the second-largest viral genome ever found in a single-celled host, is cool in its own right.

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