ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2010
DNA viruses: the really big ones (giruses).
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Giant viral signatures on the Greenland ice sheet.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Revealing viral diversity in the Napahai plateau wetland based on metagenomics.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2023Article
- Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- Scaling relation between genome length and particle size of viruses provides insights into viral life history.iScience · 2021Article
- Metaviromics coupled with phage-host identification to open the viral 'black box'.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Review
- Comparative Genomics and Environmental Distribution of Large dsDNA Viruses in the FamilyFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Emerging Aspects of Jumbo Bacteriophages.Infection and drug resistance · 2021Review
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- Structural Analysis of Jumbo Coliphage phAPEC6.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Virus goes viral: an educational kit for virology classes.Virology journal · 2020Article
- Targeted metagenomic recovery of four divergent viruses reveals shared and distinctive characteristics of giant viruses of marine eukaryotes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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- Translational Control in Virus-Infected Cells.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2019Review
- A Review on Viral Metagenomics in Extreme Environments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Review
- Laboratory Methods in Molecular Epidemiology: Viral Infections.Microbiology spectrum · 2018Review
- Effects of temperature and photosynthetically active radiation on virioplankton decay in the western Pacific Ocean.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Ultrastructure of Meelsvirus: A nuclear virus of arrow worms (phylum Chaetognatha) producing giant "tailed" virions.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Jumbo Bacteriophages: An Overview.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Viruses with genomes greater than 300 kb and up to 1200 kb are being discovered with increasing frequency. These large viruses (often called giruses) can encode up to 900 proteins and also many tRNAs. Consequently, these viruses have more protein-encoding genes than many bacteria, and the concept of small particle/small genome that once defined viruses is no longer valid. Giruses infect bacteria and animals although most of the recently discovered ones infect protists. Thus, genome gigantism is not restricted to a specific host or phylogenetic clade. To date, most of the giruses are associated with aqueous environments. Many of these large viruses (phycodnaviruses and Mimiviruses) probably have a common evolutionary ancestor with the poxviruses, iridoviruses, asfarviruses, ascoviruses, and a recently discovered Marseillevirus. One issue that is perhaps not appreciated by the microbiology community is that large viruses, even ones classified in the same family, can differ significantly in morphology, lifestyle, and genome structure. This review focuses on some of these differences than on extensive details about individual viruses.
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