Giant Virus With Record-Long Tail Discovered in Pacific Ocean

C-MĀIKI faculty member Alex Culley has been featured in a Science article for the discovery of a novel dinoflagellate giant virus (PelV-1). This virus has the longest virus appendage described to date!

Read the article here: https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-virus-record-long-tail-discovered-pacific-ocean

Read the bioRxiv preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.19.665647v1.full