''Pandoravirus tropicalis'' is a virus belonging to the genus
Pandoravirus
''Pandoravirus'' is a genus of giant virus, first discovered in 2013. It is the second largest in physical size of any known viral genus. Pandoraviruses have double stranded DNA genomes, with the largest genome size (2.5 million base pairs) of ...
. It was isolated from water samples taken from the artificial lake
Lake Pampulha
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Lake Pampulha (Portuguese: Lagoa da Pampulha, ) is an artificial lake located in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is also the name of an administrative region (''região administrativa'') of Belo Horizonte, and the name of one of ...
in Brazil.
References
DNA viruses
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