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Draft genome sequence of the coccolithovirus Emiliania huxleyi virus 202
Jozef I Nissimov1, Charlotte A Worthy, Paul Rooks
1Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Emiliania huxleyi virus 202 (EhV-202) is a member of the Coccolithoviridae, a group of viruses that infect the marine coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi. EhV-202 has a 160- to 180-nm-diameter icosahedral structure and a genome of approximately 407 kbp, consisting of 485 coding sequences (CDSs). Here we describe the genomic features of EhV-202, together with a draft genome sequence and its annotation, highlighting the homology and heterogeneity of this genome in comparison with the EhV-86 reference genome.
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