Floating in the coastal waters of Chile, a team of French researchers has discovered and isolated yet another giant virus: Megavirus chilensis. Ringing in at a whopping 1.3 million base pairs, the ...
Called Megavirus chilensis, it is 10 to 20 times longer than the average virus. It just beats the previous record holder, Mimivirus, which was found in a water cooling tower in the UK in 1992.
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