Viva Lavidaviruses! Five Features of Virophages That Parasitize Giant DNA Viruses

Overview

Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2019 Mar 22

PMID 30897185

Citations 27

Authors

Sarah Duponchel

Matthias G Fischer

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