Felipe Campos de Melo Iani

A Novel Brazilian Isolate Expands the Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Chlorovirus americanus

A novel chlorovirus was isolated from a freshwater sample collected from a Brazilian urban lake. Members of the family Phycodnaviridae, the chloroviruses have large linear dsDNA genomes (285–410 kbp) that encode hundreds of proteins and tRNAs. Despite their ecological and evoluti...