| Range |
Length ~1500 Diameter 500 nm
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| Organism |
Pithovirus sibericum |
| Reference |
Legendre, M. et al., (2014). Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(11), 4274–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.1320670111
page 4275 bottom of left columnPubMed ID24591590
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| Comments |
"This sample was aseptically collected from a permafrost
layer corresponding to late Pleistocene sediments older than
30,000 y (13). Similar paleosoils are known to contain cysts of
Acanthamoeba cells (16). After amplification, the particles were
analyzed by transmission electron microscopy confirming that
Pithovirus shared the overall morphology of the Pandoraviruses
(9) with slightly larger dimensions (~1.5µm in length, 500 nm in
diameter). The virions exhibit a
60 nm-thick structured envelope
made of one layer of parallel stripes (Fig. 1)" |
| Entered by |
Elad Herz |
| ID |
111143 |