Draft Genome Sequence of Tokyovirus, a Member of the Family Marseilleviridae Isolated from the Arakawa River of Tokyo, Japan.

ABSTRACT: Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particles that infect Acanthamoeba cells. This report presents a new Marseilleviridae family member discovered in a water/soil sample from a river in Tokyo, named Tokyovirus, with genome size of 370 to 380 kb.

SUBMITTER: Takemura M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4901213 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature