Antigenome

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In the context of viruses, an antigenome is the complementary strand of RNA that serves as a template for synthesizing new viral genomes. Essentially, it's the negative strand of RNA that the virus uses to make copies of itself. The antigenome is crucial for viral replication, particularly in negative-stranded RNA viruses.