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Diversity and genomics of giant viruses in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Large double-stranded DNA viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota, often referred to as “giant viruses,” are ubiquitous members of marine ecosystems that are important agents of mortality for eukaryotic plankton.
Roxanna Farzad +3 more
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Continuous year-round isolation of giant viruses from brackish shoreline soils [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyGiant viruses, categorized under Nucleocytoviricota, are believed to exist ubiquitously in natural environments. However, comprehensive reports on isolated giant viruses remain scarce, with limited information available on unrecoverable strains, viral ...
Motohiro Akashi +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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Current Biology, 2020 Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie introduce giant viruses.
Abergel, Chantal, Claverie, Jean-Michel
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Giant viruses of the Kutch Desert [PDF]
Archives of Virology, 2015 The Kutch desert (Great Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India) is a unique ecosystem: in the larger part of the year it is a hot, salty desert that is flooded regularly in the Indian monsoon season. In the dry season, the crystallized salt deposits form the "white desert" in large regions.
Csaba Kerepesi, Vince Grolmusz
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Proteorhodopsin genes in giant viruses [PDF]
Biology Direct, 2012 Viruses with large genomes encode numerous proteins that do not directly participate in virus biogenesis but rather modify key functional systems of infected cells. We report that a distinct group of giant viruses infecting unicellular eukaryotes that includes Organic Lake Phycodnaviruses and Phaeocystis globosa virus encode predicted proteorhodopsins ...
Yutin Natalya, Koonin Eugene V
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Learning the diversity of giant viruses [PDF]
Nature Methods, 2020 Researchers identify a broad phylogenetic diversity of nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses by mining global-scale metagenomics datasets.
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Giant virus vs amoeba: fight for supremacy
Virology Journal, 2019 Since the discovery of mimivirus, numerous giant viruses associated with free-living amoebae have been described. The genome of giant viruses can be more than 2.5 megabases, and virus particles can exceed the size of many bacteria.
Graziele Oliveira +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 Giant viruses are large DNA viruses with capsid diameters up to 500 nm. Given technical challenges only few high-resolution structures of viral capsids exist. Here, Shao et al.
Qianqian Shao +12 more
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The DNA Methylation Landscape of Giant Viruses [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Abstract DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that contributes to various regulations in all domains of life. Prokaryotes use it through Restriction-Modification (R-M) systems as a host-defense mechanism against viruses. The recently discovered giant viruses are widespread dsDNA viruses infecting eukaryotes
Sandra Jeudy +5 more
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