Zamilon, a Novel Virophage with Mimiviridae Host Specificity [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Virophages, which are potentially important ecological regulators, have been discovered in association with members of the order Megavirales. Sputnik virophages target the Mimiviridae, Mavirus was identified with the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus, and ...
Morgan Gaia +2 more
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Broad Spectrum of Mimiviridae Virophage Allows Its Isolation Using a Mimivirus Reporter [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The giant virus Mimiviridae family includes 3 groups of viruses: group A (includes Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus), group B (includes Moumouvirus) and group C (includes Megavirus chilensis).
Morgan Gaia +2 more
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Giant Mimiviridae CsCl Purification Protocol [PDF]
Bio-protocol, 2020 While different giant viruses’ purification protocols are available, they are not fully described and they use sucrose gradient that does not reach an equilibrium.
Lionel Bertaux, Sandra Jeudy
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Evolution and Phylogeny of Large DNA Viruses, Mimiviridae and Phycodnaviridae Including Newly Characterized Heterosigma akashiwo Virus [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Nucleocytoplasmic DNA viruses are a large group of viruses that harbor double-stranded DNA genomes with sizes of several hundred kbp, challenging the traditional concept of viruses as small, simple ‘organisms at the edge of life’.
Fumito Maruyama +2 more
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Mimiviridae: An Expanding Family of Highly Diverse Large dsDNA Viruses Infecting a Wide Phylogenetic Range of Aquatic Eukaryotes [PDF]
Viruses, 2018 Since 1998, when Jim van Etten’s team initiated its characterization, Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus 1 (PBCV-1) had been the largest known DNA virus, both in terms of particle size and genome complexity.
Jean-Michel Claverie +2 more
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An Optimized Metabarcoding Method for Mimiviridae [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 Mimiviridae is a group of viruses with large genomes and virions. Ecological relevance of Mimiviridae in marine environments has been increasingly recognized through the discoveries of novel isolates and metagenomic studies.
Florian Prodinger +12 more
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GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2014 [english] Aim: During the last decade it became obvious that viruses belonging to and families (order Megavirales), may be potential causative agents of pneumonia. Thus, we have performed a review of the association of , , and virophages with pneumonia,
Kutikhin, Anton G. +2 more
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First Isolation of a Giant Virus from Wild Hirudo medicinalis Leech: Mimiviridae isolation in Hirudo medicinalis [PDF]
Viruses, 2013 Giant viruses and amoebae are common in freshwater, where they can coexist with other living multicellular organisms. We screened leeches from the species Hirudo medicinalis for giant viruses. We analyzed five H. medicinalis obtained from Tunisia (3) and
Mondher Boughalmi +2 more
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A Decade of Improvements in Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae Isolation from Amoeba [PDF]
Intervirology, 2013 International audienceSince the isolation of the first giant virus, the Mimivirus, by T.J. Rowbotham in a cooling tower in Bradford, UK, and after its characterisation by our group in 2003, we have continued to develop novel strategies to isolate ...
Ngounga, Tatsiana +10 more
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Post-Mortem Detection and Visualization of Mimivirus Reactivation in Fatal Viral Pneumonia [PDF]
VirusesMimivirus, a giant double-stranded DNA virus ($1.2$ Mbp), possesses unique bacteria-like features, including a Gram-positive staining reaction due to peptidoglycan-containing surface fibers.
Parandzem Khachatryan +17 more
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