Natalya Yutin

Loss of replication and transcription systems accompanying transition to nucleus-dependent replication in “Ariadnavirales”, a proposed new order in nucleocytoviricot class Megaviricetes

Sicyoidochytrium minutum DNA virus (SmDNAV) was isolated several years ago from a protist host of family Thraustochytriaceae of the class Labyrinthulomycetes. This virus shared little similarity to other viruses in gene content and protein sequences, albeit seemingly belonging to the phylum Nucleocytoviricota. By exten...