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This month's Genome Watch describes how the large size of the mimiviral genome is a result of the sympatric lifestyle of mimivirus in host amoebae.
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Tsai, I. Honey, I shrunk the mimiviral genome. Nat Rev Microbiol 9, 563 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2623
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