Diversity, Relationship, and Distribution of Virophages and Large Algal Viruses in Global Ocean Viromes [PDF]
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,
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Virophages—Known and Unknown Facts [PDF]
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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A billion years arms-race between viruses, virophages, and eukaryotes [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Bamfordviruses are arguably the most diverse group of viruses infecting eukaryotes. They include the Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA viruses (NCLDVs), virophages, adenoviruses, Mavericks and Polinton-like viruses.
Jose Gabriel Nino Barreat +1 more
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Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cell-virus-virophage systems. [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyMicrobial eukaryotes, giant viruses and virophages form a unique hyperparasitic system. Virophages are parasites of the virus transcription machinery and can interfere with virus replication, resulting in a benefit to the eukaryotic host population ...
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Sputnik virophage disrupts the transcriptional regulation of its host giant virus [PDF]
Journal of VirologySputnik virophages are small double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that replicate only inside host amoebae infected with giant dsDNA viruses, mimiviruses.
Jingjie Chen +2 more
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Virophages and retrotransposons colonize the genomes of a heterotrophic flagellate [PDF]
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 ...
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Genome and Environmental Activity of a Chrysochromulina parva Virus and Its Virophages [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Some giant viruses are ecological agents that are predicted to be involved in the top-down control of single-celled eukaryotic algae populations in aquatic ecosystems.
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Corrigendum: Genome and Environmental Activity of a Chrysochromulina parva Virus and Its Virophages [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00703.].
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Virophages Found in Viromes from Lake Baikal [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2023 In this study, a previously little-studied group of viruses—virophages—was searched for and identified in the viromes of the ancient oligotrophic Lake Baikal.
Sergey Anatoljevich Potapov +1 more
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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.
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