pandoravirus

See also: Pandoravirus

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

pandoravirus (plural pandoraviruses)

1. Any of the genus Pandoravirus of very large viruses that infect amoebas.
   • 2015 June 12, Cheng Sun et al., “DNA transposons have colonized the genome of the giant virus Pandoravirus salinus”, in BMC Biology‎^[1], volume 13, →DOI:

     To determine whether Submariner_Ps1 proliferation occurred within the P. salinus genome, or whether the multiple Submariner_Ps1 insertions resulted from independent introductions from a different genome (e.g. a viral host), we used 100 bp of immediately flanking sequence from all 30 Submariner_Ps1 insertions to query both amoeba and pandoravirus genomes using BLASTn.