ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2011
The good viruses: viral mutualistic symbioses.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 233 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
233 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- High-throughput sequencing-based virome analysis reveals genomic diversity and recombination of tomato-infecting viruses in Korea.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Co-evolved Partners of Immunity: A Trait-Based Map of Human Keystone Organisms.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Whole-Genome Analysis of a Historical Strain ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Mexico as a hotspot for plant virus evolution: eco-evolutionary regimes shaping viral emergence.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- A Journey into Plant-Microbe Interactions: From Lab to Field for a Sustainable Agriculture.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Coexistence of virome-encoded health-associated genes and pathogenic genes in global habitats.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Effects of cucumber mosaic virus infection on Arabidopsis thaliana in wild populations: from mutualism to antagonism.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- DNA viral community enhances microbial carbon fixation capacity via auxiliary metabolic genes in contaminated soils.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Genome-wide screen uncovers novel host factors for L-A virus maintenance and a potential mutualistic-symbiosis relationship in yeast.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Transcriptome analysis of Spodoptera RNA-seq data unveils new viruses within the family Rhabdoviridae.Virus genes · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although viruses are most often studied as pathogens, many are beneficial to their hosts, providing essential functions in some cases and conditionally beneficial functions in others. Beneficial viruses have been discovered in many different hosts, including bacteria, insects, plants, fungi and animals. How these beneficial interactions evolve is still a mystery in many cases but, as discussed in this Review, the mechanisms of these interactions are beginning to be understood in more detail.
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