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22.07.2013 10:19 Giant viruses are forced scientists to change their outlook on life

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Scientists have discovered new giant viruses that will point to the infinite variety of life forms. Specialists share life on Earth superkingdom or three domains: bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. Thus, for viruses living organisms, scientists have never considered writing Vesti.ru. But the recent discovery made them change those views. So, off the coast of Australia was discovered megavirus size of 1 micrometer in length and 0.5 micrometers in width, and its genome is composed of 1.9-2.5 million bases. Most surprising was not the size of the virus, and in that only 7% of the genes have been previously unknown to science. The discovery of giant viruses compared with the opening of Pandora’s box, scientists say. Of Parasitology of the Central Institute for the Health Service of Germany Rolf Michel discovered the virus inside a giant amoeba on a contact lens women. In the future, scientists have to figure out how to appear these viruses.

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