"Mollivirus sibericum" ('Siberian soft virus' from Latin mŏllĭs 'soft') is a DNA virus from the Upper Paleolithic that was found in 2015 by French scientists from the CNRS in the permafrost of north-east Russia. With a diameter of around 600 nm , it is possibly one of the largest viruses or virus-like organisms described. " Mollivirus sibericum " was found in 2015 in a 30,000 year old layer in the permafrost soil of Siberia at a depth of about 30 meters. There is evidence of a distant relationship with the Phycodnaviren : The " Molli virus " has as pandoravirus apparently a common ancestor with the Coccolithoviren within the family of phycodnaviridae , suggesting an association with this family.
The phycodnaviridae as one of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recognized (ICTV) virus family would remain for the Molli virus - clade instead of own family " Molliviridae " as some have suggested. at most the rank of a subfamily should confirm these relationships: The facts are the same as with the Pandora and Coccolithoviruses.
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↑ The genera Prymnesiovirus and Raphidovirus are not considered in this work, Phaeovirus is prescribed as Phaevirus . YLPV seems to mean Yellowstone Phycodnavirus YSLPV 1 to 3, the spelling Yellow Lake Phycodnavirus (Ylpv-A, Ylpv-B) is otherwise only found in Kinyanyi et al . (2018). For clarification, see Zhang et al . (2015)
↑ Chantal Abergel: Giant viruses physiology , March 24, 2017, Laboratoire Information Génomique et Structurale (IGS), Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée (IMM), Marseille, France