Mimivirus builds on this established trend by exhibiting a wealth of amino acid-, lipid-, and sugar-modifying enzymes, albeit all of them in the form of apparently incomplete (virus-encoded) pathways.
From: Encyclopedia of Virology (Third Edition), 2008
J.-M. Claverie, in Encyclopedia of Virology (Third Edition), 2008
Mimivirus was serendipitously discovered within A. polyphaga, a free-living ubiquitous amoeba, prevalent in aquatic environments. Many of the mimivirus core genes exhibit a phylogenetic affinity with members of the family Phycodnaviridae (algal and phytoplanktonviruses). It can be expected therefore that additional viruses belonging to the family Mimiviridae will be found in aquatic/marine environments, for instance in marine protists.
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