Scientists have zoomed in on mimivirus, the enormous virus with the delicate name that has perplexed scientists since 1992, when it was found living in an amoeba in a water tower in England.
Mimivirus, the largest known virus, bears a starfish-shaped structure (A and B) that covers an opening in the virus coat through which DNA might be expelled when infecting a host.
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