Medusavirus
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See also: medusavirus
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa, “Medusa”) + -virus. From Latin virus (“virus”). From being a virus which can turn amoeba into stone-like cysts. From Medusa, the Greek mythological figure which could petrify people with a glance.
Proper noun[edit]
Medusavirus
- (virology) An informal genus of the informal family Medusaviridae, large DNA viruses that infect amoeba.
- 2019 March 20, Sarah Zhang, “Beware the Medusavirus”, in The Atlantic:
- The newest giant virus is Medusavirus, so named because of the way it infects amoebas, single-celled organisms that commonly live in water.
- 2019 October 24, German Andrés et al., “The cryo-EM structure of African swine fever virus unravels a unique architecture comprising two icosahedral protein capsids and two lipoprotein membranes”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry, :
- Many of the NCLDVs, including the phycodnavirus Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus (PBCV-1), the iridovirus Chilo iridescent virus (CIV), the mimivirus Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (CroV), or the giant amoeba-infecting Faustovirus, Pacmanvirus, and Medusavirus, present large icosahedral capsids composed of trimers of a MCP that displays a double jelly-roll fold.
- 2020 March 16, Issam Hasni et al., “Description of Virulent Factors and Horizontal Gene Transfers of Keratitis-Associated Amoeba Acanthamoeba Triangularis by Genome Analysis”, in Pathogens, :
- Furthermore, we identified 5 A. triangularis homologous sequences shared with Medusavirus, a giant virus that replicates on Acanthamoeba castellanii, which was isolated from hot spring water.
Usage notes[edit]
- Not accepted in ICTV 2019; does not appear in Viralzone as of June 8, 2020.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Virus, Medusaviridae - "family"
References[edit]
Medusavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
