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  2. Alphapithovirus - Wikipedia

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    Alphapithovirus, is a genus of giant virus known from two species, Alphapithovirus sibericum, which infects amoebas, [2] [3] and Alphapithovirus massiliense. [4] It is DNA-based and is a member of the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses clade.

  3. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

  4. Mimivirus - Wikipedia

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    The virus was observed in a Gram stain and mistakenly thought to be a Gram-positive bacterium. As a consequence it was named Bradfordcoccus, after Bradford, England, where the amoeba had originated. In 2003, researchers at the Université de la Méditerranée in Marseille, France, published a paper in Science identifying the micro-organism as a ...

  5. Virus - Wikipedia

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    A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. [1] Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.

  6. Semliki Forest virus - Wikipedia

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    It was first isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest, Uganda by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in 1942 and described by Smithburn and Haddow. [2] It is known to cause disease in animals and humans. The Semliki Forest virus is a positive-strand RNA virus with a genome of approximately 13,000 base pairs which encodes nine proteins. [3]

  7. Totivirus - Wikipedia

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    Genome of genus totivirus. Totiviruses have a genome of 4700–6700 nucleotides in length and only a single copy of the genome is present in the particle. The nucleic acid content of a totivirus capsid is usually of one segment but can also contain three or four segments of linear double stranded RNA.

  8. Bovine papillomavirus - Wikipedia

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    Warts contain large amounts of infectious virus which is relatively stable. Transmission between animals is common via, for example, fence posts or halters. Warts on the teats of lactating cows are readily transmitted to calves via abrasions. Contaminated tattooing or tagging equipment is another common source of infection. [citation needed]

  9. Hash function - Wikipedia

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    Hash functions are used in conjunction with hash tables to store and retrieve data items or data records. The hash function translates the key associated with each datum or record into a hash code, which is used to index the hash table.