Virophages or satellite viruses?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Screening metatranscriptomes for ultrastable RNA secondary structures reveals hidden bacteriophages and novel capsid nanomaterials.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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2. A Polinton-like Virus ofViruses · 2026
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3. The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2024
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4. Virophages, Satellite Viruses, Virophage Replication and Its Effects and Virophage Defence Mechanisms for Giant Virus Hosts and Giant Virus Defence Systems against Virophages.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
   Review
5. Viral Complexity.Biomolecules · 2022
   Review
6. Evolutionary entanglement of mobile genetic elements and host defence systems: guns for hire.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2020
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7. Virophages of Giant Viruses: An Update at Eleven.Viruses · 2019
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8. Functional and evolutionary analysis of viral proteins containing a Rossmann-like fold.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2018
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9. Virophages and Their Interactions with Giant Viruses and Host Cells.Proteomes · 2018
   Review
10. Polintons, virophages and transpovirons: a tangled web linking viruses, transposons and immunity.Current opinion in virology · 2017
    Review
11. Amoebae, Giant Viruses, and Virophages Make Up a Complex, Multilayered Threesome.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
    Review
12. The Expanding Family of Virophages.Viruses · 2016
    Review
13. Iflavirus increases its infectivity and physical stability in association with baculovirus.PeerJ · 2016
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14. Provirophages in the Bigelowiella genome bear testimony to past encounters with giant viruses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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15. Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity.Virology · 2015
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16. Evolution of double-stranded DNA viruses of eukaryotes: from bacteriophages to transposons to giant viruses.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2015
    Review
17. Polintons: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2015
    Review
18. Ecology and evolution of viruses infecting uncultivated SUP05 bacteria as revealed by single-cell- and meta-genomics.eLife · 2014
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19. Structure of large dsDNA viruses.Biological chemistry · 2014
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20. Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon.Virology journal · 2014
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Corrections and comments

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  Sputnik and Mavirus: more than just satellite viruses.2011
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  Virophages question the existence of satellites.2012

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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