Abstract
A newly discovered mammoth mimivirus is itself unexpectedly infected with a tiny icosahedral virus, according to Bernard La Scola and Didier Raoult of the Universite of Mediterranee in Marseille, France, and their collaborators in France and the United States. Aptly, they call the new 50-nm viral parasite “Sputnik,” after “traveling companion” in Russian, while the new and much larger strain of mimivirus that carries it is formally known as an Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) or, less formally, “mamavirus.” Details appear in the 4 September 2008 (6 August online) Nature (doi:10.1038/nature07218).
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