virus

non-cellular, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism
Taxon taxon Q808
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virus

Summary

virus is a taxon[1]. virus ranks in the top 0.066% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,503 views/month, #129 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • virus's video is recorded as Was sind Viren (CC BY 4.0) (720p).webm[3].
  • virus's image is recorded as Rotavirus Reconstruction.jpg[4].
  • virus's image is recorded as Zika-chain-colored.png[5].
  • virus's image is recorded as SARS-CoV-2 without background.png[6].
  • virus's instance of is recorded as taxon[7].
  • virus's taxon rank is recorded as domain[8].
  • virus's parent taxon is recorded as Biota[9].
  • virus's taxon name is recorded as Virus[10].
  • virus's GND ID is recorded as 4063589-2[11].
  • virus's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85143833[12].
  • virus's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11938341t[13].
  • virus's subclass of is recorded as microorganism[14].
  • virus's subclass of is recorded as pathogen[15].
  • virus's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00560678[16].
  • virus's has use is recorded as virovory[17].
  • virus's Commons category is recorded as Viruses[18].
  • virus's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D014780[19].
  • virus's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 5358[20].
  • virus's has part is recorded as viral genome[21].
  • virus's has part is recorded as viral capsid[22].
  • virus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0g9pc[23].
  • virus's MeSH tree code is recorded as B04[24].
  • virus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 10239[25].
  • virus's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph116578[26].
  • virus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 5006[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for virus include computer virus[28], a software category[29].

Why It Matters

virus ranks in the top 0.066% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,503 views/month, #129 of 195,241).[2] virus has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] virus is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for virus include computer virus[28], a software category[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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