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zbertoli t1_jbokdu7 wrote

I know one of the smallest genomes is for HEP D, its a satellite virus that only has like 3 genes. It uses the proteins from Hep A-C because it doesn't have them all. So to get D, you have to have another HEP. Pretty cool, honestly. It only has 1700 bp and is thought to maybe be a old plant virus called a viroid

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