Tupanvirus is a genus of viruses first described in 2018.[1] The genus is composed of two species of virus that are in the giant virus group.[2][3] Researchers discovered the first isolate in 2012 from deep water sediment samples taken at 3000m depth off the coast of Brazil.[1] The second isolate was collected from a soda lake in Southern Nhecolândia, Brazil in 2014.[1] They are named after Tupã (Tupan), a Guaraní thunder god, and the places they were found. These are the first viruses reported to possess genes for amino-acyl tRNA synthetases for all 20 standard amino acids.[1][4][5]
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revealed that the genus Tupanvirus is separate from the other viruses in the family Mimiviridae. The morphology of Tupanvirus can be similarly compared...
Levasseur A, Kroemer G, Raoult D, La Scola B (February 2018). "Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere"...
group is Bodo saltans virus infecting the kinetoplastid Bodo saltans. Tupanvirus strains have been discussed to comprise a sister group of mimiviruses...
Nucleocytoviricota (NCLDV), together with poxviruses. The largest known of these is Tupanvirus. This genus of giant virus was discovered in 2018 in the deep ocean as...
Nucleocytoviricota (NCLDV), together with poxviruses. The largest known of these is Tupanvirus. This genus of giant virus was discovered in 2018 in the deep ocean as...
under Asfarviridae (Asfuvirales) Platanovirus – similar to Megavirus or Tupanvirus (Imitervirales) Sissivirus and Misannotatedvirus – (together with Solumnvirus...
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