A giant virus with a 4-megabase genome and a vastly expanded repeatome.
Julien Andréani, Miguel F. Romero, Sofia medvedeva, Tomáš Brůna, Nicolas Haas, Jean‐Pierre Baudoin, Jonatane Andrieu, Saïd Mougari, Sihem Hannat, Rita Jaafar, Idir Bitam, Pierre Charpin, Jean Armengaud, Philippe Colson, Mart Krupovìč, , Bernard LA SCOLA
The paper describes Sissivirus, a giant virus with a 4-megabase genome and a large repeatome, identifying repeat accumulation as a key driver of its genome expansion.
bioRxiv · Oct 21, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology