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, Shoko Ueki
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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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Mimiviridae: clusters of orthologous genes, reconstruction of gene repertoire evolution and proposed expansion of the giant virus family [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2013 The family Mimiviridae belongs to the large monophyletic group of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV; proposed order Megavirales) and encompasses giant viruses infecting amoeba and probably other unicellular eukaryotes.
N. Yutin +3 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 +5 more
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Year-round dynamics of amplicon sequence variant communities differ among eukaryotes, Mimiviridae, and prokaryotes in a coastal ecosystem [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2021 Coastal seawater is the habitat of different microbial communities. These communities are affected by seasonal environmental changes and fluctuating nutrient availability, as well as competitive and cooperative interspecific interactions.
Florian Prodinger +12 more
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Commensalism in the Mimiviridae giant virus family [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2019 Acanthamoeba-infecting Mimiviridae belong to three clades: Mimiviruses (A), Moumouviruses (B) and Megaviruses (C). The uniquely complex mobilome of these giant viruses includes virophages and linear 7 kb-DNA molecules called “transpovirons”.
S. Jeudy +14 more
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Marine and giant viruses as indicators of a marine microbial community in a riverine system [PDF]
MicrobiologyOpen, 2016 Viral communities are important for ecosystem function as they are involved in critical biogeochemical cycles and controlling host abundance. This study investigates riverine viral communities around a small rural town that influences local water inputs.
Lisa M. Dann +7 more
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Journal of virology, 2022 Parasitic virophages are small unicellular eukaryotic dsDNA viruses that rely on the viral factories of coinfecting giant/large dsDNA viruses for propagation.
Yijian Sheng +3 more
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A Decade of Improvements in Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae Isolation from Amoeba [PDF]
Intervirology, 2013 Since 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 additional strains.
Isabelle Pagnier +10 more
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Lateral Gene Transfer Between Protozoa-Related Giant Viruses of Family Mimiviridae and Chlamydiae [PDF]
Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 2018 Obligate intracellular chlamydiae diverged into pathogenic and environmental chlamydiae 0.7-1.4 billion years ago. While pathogenic chlamydiae have adapted to a wide range of vertebrates, environmental chlamydiae inhabit unicellular amoebae, the free ...
Takanori Watanabe +6 more
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