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Virophages and Their Interactions with Giant Viruses and Host Cells
Proteomes, 2018 Virophages are small dsDNA viruses that were first isolated in association with some giant viruses (GVs), and then found in metagenomics samples. They encode about 20–34 proteins.
Haitham Sobhy
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Diversity of Giant Viruses Infecting Vermamoeba vermiformis
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The discovery of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus in 2003 using the free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba polyphaga caused a paradigm shift in the virology field.
Khalil Geballa-Koukoulas +4 more
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A Brief History of Giant Viruses’ Studies in Brazilian Biomes
Viruses, 2022 Almost two decades after the isolation of the first amoebal giant viruses, indubitably the discovery of these entities has deeply affected the current scientific knowledge on the virosphere. Much has been uncovered since then: viruses can now acknowledge
Paulo Victor M. Boratto +16 more
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Viruses, 2019 Viruses are the most prevalent infectious agents, populating almost every ecosystem on earth. Most viruses carry only a handful of genes supporting their replication and the production of capsids.
Nadav Brandes, Michal Linial
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Past and present giant viruses diversity explored through permafrost metagenomics
Nature Communications, 2022 Although giant viruses are abundant in aquatic environments, less is known about giant viruses in soil. Here, the authors use permafrost metagenomics to reveal giant virus diversity and heterogeneity, as well as gene transfers between viruses from ...
Sofia Rigou +4 more
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Host Range and Coding Potential of Eukaryotic Giant Viruses
Viruses, 2020 Giant viruses are a group of eukaryotic double-stranded DNA viruses with large virion and genome size that challenged the traditional view of virus. Newly isolated strains and sequenced genomes in the last two decades have substantially advanced our ...
Tsu-Wang Sun +5 more
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Giant viruses of amoebas: an update
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 During the 12 past years, five new or putative virus families encompassing several members, namely Mimiviridae, Marseilleviridae, pandoraviruses, faustoviruses, and virophages were described.
Sarah eAherfi +7 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Acanthamoeba are ubiquitous phagocytes predominant in soil and water which can ingest many microbes. Giant viruses of amoebae are listed among the Acanthamoeba-resisting microorganisms.
Nisrine Chelkha +2 more
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A long-term prospecting study on giant viruses in terrestrial and marine Brazilian biomes [PDF]
Virology JournalThe discovery of mimivirus in 2003 prompted the search for novel giant viruses worldwide. Despite increasing interest, the diversity and distribution of giant viruses is barely known.
Talita B. Machado +11 more
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Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 International audienceDNA viruses have a major influence on the ecology and evolution of cellular organisms, but their overall diversity and evolutionary trajectories remain elusive.
Gaïa M +10 more
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