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MeSH Heading: Giant Viruses
Tree Number(s): B04.280.356
Unique ID: D000072139
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000072139
Scope Note: DNA viruses that have genomes up to several megabases in length and infect primarily single-celled EUKARYOTES.
Entry Term(s): Giruses; Megavirales; Megaviridae
Previous Indexing: DNA Viruses (1999-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2020/09/02

Allowable Qualifiers: chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

drug effects (DE)

enzymology (EN)

genetics (GE)

growth & development (GD)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pathogenicity (PY)

physiology (PH)

radiation effects (RE)

ultrastructure (UL)

Giant Viruses MeSH Descriptor Data 2024