{"id":485464,"date":"2018-06-12T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a89a62ac9612203cc9d6eeaefc2bd0d8"},"modified":"2018-06-12T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:14:13","slug":"pandoravirus-giant-viruses-invent-their-own-genes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=485464","title":{"rendered":"Pandoravirus: Giant viruses invent their own genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (CNRS\/Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9), working with partners at the Large Scale Biology Laboratory (CEA\/Inserm\/Universit\u00e9 Grenoble-Alpes) and at CEA-Genoscope. This strange family of viruses, with their giant genomes and many genes with no known equivalents, surprised the scientists when they were discovered a few years ago. In the 11 June 2018 edition of Nature Communications, researchers offer an explanation: Pandoviruses appear to be factories for new genes\u2014and therefore new functions. From freaks of nature to evolutionary innovators, giant viruses continue to shake branches on the tree of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (CNRS\/Aix-Marseille Universit&eacute;), working with partners at the Large Scale Biology Laboratory (CEA\/Inserm\/Universit&eacute; Grenoble-Alpes) and at CEA-Genoscope. This strange family of viruses, with their giant genomes and many genes with no known equivalents, surprised the scientists when they were discovered a few years ago. In the 11 June 2018 edition of Nature Communications, researchers offer an explanation: Pandoviruses appear to be factories for new genes&mdash;and therefore new functions. From freaks of nature to evolutionary innovators, giant viruses continue to shake branches on the tree of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485465,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485464\/revisions\/485465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}