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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorya type of giant virus, a giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (giant NCLDV) · Synonym of giant virus.
Blend of giant + virus; coined by J M Claverie, H Ogata, S Audic, C Abergel, K Suhre, P E Fournier, in a 2006 paper in Virus Research.
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