The analysis of translation-related gene set boosts debates around origin and evolution of mimiviruses. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2017 The giant mimiviruses challenged the well-established concept of viruses, blurring the roots of the tree of life, mainly due to their genetic content.
Jônatas Santos Abrahão +3 more
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Oyster RNA-seq data support the development of Malacoherpesviridae genomics [PDF]
, 2017 The family of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) Malacoherpesviridae includes viruses able to infect marine mollusks and detrimental for worldwide aquaculture production. Due to fast-occurring mortality and a lack of permissive cell lines, the available data on
Rosani, Umberto, Venier, Paola
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Guarani Virophage, a New Sputnik-Like Isolate From a Brazilian Lake
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Virophages are critical regulators of viral population dynamics and potential actors in the stability of the microbial networks. These small biological entities predate the replicative cycle of giant viruses, such as the members of the Mimiviridae family
Said Mougari +6 more
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Marseilleviruses: An Update in 2021
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The family Marseilleviridae was the second family of giant viruses that was described in 2013, after the family Mimiviridae. Marseillevirus marseillevirus, isolated in 2007 by coculture on Acanthamoeba polyphaga, is the prototype member of this family ...
Dehia Sahmi-Bounsiar +13 more
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More to Phaeovirus infections than first meets the eye [PDF]
, 2015 Phaeoviruses infect the brown algae, Phaeophyceae. They exploit a Persistent evolutionary strategy via genome integration and are the only known representatives to do so amongst the giant viruses, Megaviridae.
Schroeder, Declan C.
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Morphological and Genomic Features of the New Klosneuvirinae Isolate Fadolivirus IHUMI-VV54
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Since the discovery of Mimivirus, viruses with large genomes encoding components of the translation machinery and other cellular processes have been described as belonging to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses. Recently, genome-resolved metagenomics
Julien Andreani +5 more
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Cedratvirus lausannensis - digging into Pithoviridae diversity. [PDF]
, 2017 Amoeba-infecting viruses have raised scientists' interest due to their novel particle morphologies, their large genome size and their genomic content challenging previously established dogma.
Bertelli, C. +5 more
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Phylogenetic and phyletic studies of informational genes in genomes highlight existence of a 4 domain of life including giant viruses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The discovery of Mimivirus, with its very large genome content, made it possible to identify genes common to the three domains of life (Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea) and to generate controversial phylogenomic trees congruent with that of ribosomal genes,
Mickaël Boyer +4 more
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Distinct oceanic microbiomes from viruses to protists located near the Antarctic Circumpolar Current [PDF]
, 2018 Microbes occupy diverse ecological niches and only through recent advances in next generation sequencing technologies have the true microbial diversity been revealed.
Andrea C. Highfield +14 more
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Diversity and Ecological Potentials of Marine Viruses Inhabiting Continental Shelf Seas
Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, 5 January 2026.To the best of the knowledge, this study provides the largest viral genome dataset from a continental shelf sea. It reveals that over half of vOTUs are novel, highlighting the remarkable viral novelty in the eastern continental shelf seas of China (ECSSC).
Xiaoyue Guo +9 more
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