Paula Erazo
@punuivirus.bsky.social
🇪🇨 PhD candidate, Virginia Tech. Studying an elusive virus in Chlamy.
Reposted by Paula Erazo
Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6
Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail - Nature Communications
Rodrigues and Queiroz et al. report the discovery of Naiavirus, the largest enveloped virus, isolated from a Brazil biome. With an oval capsid and flexible tail, its giant genome holds many novel gene...
nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6
Reposted by Paula Erazo
Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676377v1
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676377v1