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 ...
Philippe Colson +2 more
exaly +5 more sources
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).
Bernard La Scola +2 more
exaly +5 more sources
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
exaly +6 more sources
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’.
Shoko Ueki +2 more
exaly +6 more sources
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
exaly +6 more sources
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
Philippe Colson +2 more
exaly +5 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
Metagenomic profiling unveils the viral diversity in field-collected Aedes larvae from Central India employing nanopore sequencing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSeveral arboviruses including Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses are emerging and re-emerging in many parts of the world over last two decades.
Ekta Gupta +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
An efficient numerical representation of genome sequence: natural vector with covariance component [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background The characterization and comparison of microbial sequences, including archaea, bacteria, viruses and fungi, are very important to understand their evolutionary origin and the population relationship.
Nan Sun, Xin Zhao, Stephen S.-T. Yau
doaj +2 more sources
Giant Viruses as a Source of Novel Enzymes for Biotechnological Application
Pathogens, 2022 The global demand for industrial enzymes has been increasing in recent years, and the search for new sources of these biological products is intense, especially in microorganisms.
Ellen Gonçalves de Oliveira +6 more
doaj +1 more source