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Updated Virophage Taxonomy and Distinction from Polinton-like Viruses [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2023 Virophages are small dsDNA viruses that hijack the machinery of giant viruses during the co-infection of a protist (i.e., microeukaryotic) host and represent an exceptional case of “hyperparasitism” in the viral world.
Thomas Hackl +2 more
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Simultaneous Giant Virus and Virophage Quantification Using Droplet Digital PCR
Viruses, 2022 Viruses are an abundant component of aquatic systems, but their detection and quantification remain a challenge. Virophages co-replicate with giant viruses in the shared host cell, and can inhibit the production of new giant virus particles, thereby ...
Lutz Becks +2 more
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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
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Viruses, 2022 Mimiviruses are giant viruses of amoeba that can be found in association with virophages. These satellite-like viruses are dependent on the mimivirus viral factory to replicate.
Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues +2 more
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Diversity, evolution, and classification of virophages uncovered through global metagenomics [PDF]
Microbiome, 2019 Background Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that replicate along with giant viruses and co-infect eukaryotic cells. Due to the paucity of virophage reference genomes, a collective understanding of the global virophage ...
David Paez-Espino +12 more
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Journal of VirologyVirophages are small double-stranded DNA viruses that parasitize giant viruses and play crucial roles in microbial ecosystem dynamics. In this study, we investigate three evolutionarily conserved tail proteins in Dishui Lake Virophage 2 (DSLV2) that ...
Lanming Chen, Yongxin Yu, Yongjie Wang
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Viruses, 2023 Virophages are a group of small double-stranded DNA viruses that replicate and proliferate with the help of the viral factory of large host viruses. They are widely distributed in aquatic environments but are more abundant in freshwater ecosystems. Here,
Zhenqi Wu +4 more
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Virophages—Known and Unknown Facts
Viruses, 2023 The paper presents virophages, which, like their host, giant viruses, are “new” infectious agents whose role in nature, including mammalian health, is important. Virophages, along with their protozoan and algal hosts, are found in fresh inland waters and
Beata Tokarz-Deptuła +4 more
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Virophages and retrotransposons colonize the genomes of a heterotrophic flagellate
eLife, 2021 Virophages can parasitize giant DNA viruses and may provide adaptive anti-giant virus defense in unicellular eukaryotes. Under laboratory conditions, the virophage mavirus integrates into the nuclear genome of the marine flagellate Cafeteria burkhardae ...
Thomas Hackl +4 more
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Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus Virophage Seroconversion in Travelers Returning from Laos
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 During January 2010, a husband and wife returned from Laos to France with probable parasitic disease. Increased antibodies against an Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus virophage indicated seroconversion. While in Laos, they had eaten raw fish, a potential
Philippe Parola +5 more
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