Published 2021-07-02
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Giant viruses and their environmental impact

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/26194759.4861
Jessica Paola Sarmiento Echeverria Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca.
Sara Torres Ramirez Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca.
Ruth Melida Sanchez Mora Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca.
Mauricio Humberto Rodriguez Panduro Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

The giant viruses have distinguished in the last decade because of their structural and genetic distinctive features that have allowed to interpret in different ways their origin and evolution. Some authors consider that giant viruses acquired some of their genes based on the horizontal transference of their eukaryotic hosts, what will allow to explain the functions in a metabolic level that have been suggested for many of them. As the study of giant viruses progresses, more is the knowledge that is acquired about the existing relation among the own genes of cellular origin and the possible role that work as the giant viruses in an environmental level. With this study is pretended to make a bibliographic review of the main characteristics about the giant viruses, their role in an ecological level and their possible presence and implications in Colombian ecosystems.

keywords: acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus, aquatic ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, giant viruses, large DNA nucleoplasmic viruses
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Sarmiento Echeverria, J. P., Torres Ramirez , . S., Sanchez Mora, R. M. ., & Rodriguez Panduro, M. H. . (2021). Giant viruses and their environmental impact. Biociencias, 5(1), 51-81. https://doi.org/10.22490/26194759.4861
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