by Merry Youle — With­out a doubt, Mimivirus is re­mark­able. For a virus, it is ex­tra­or­di­nar­ily large and com­plex. But it is hardly one of a kind. The more that re­searchers look for large viruses, the more they find. Al­though phages gen­er­ally tend to have small genomes, some man­ag­ing with but a hand­ful of genes, a glance at the cur­rent NCBI list re­veals...