Draft Genome Sequence of Tokyovirus, a Member of the Family Marseilleviridae Isolated from the Arakawa River of Tokyo, Japan.
Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particles that infect Acanthamoeba cells. This report presents a new Marseilleviridae family member discovered in a water/soil sample from a river in Tokyo, named Tokyovirus, with genome size of 370 to 380 kb.
Laboratory of Biology, Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan takemura@rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp.
Masaharu
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Takemura