ReviewScientifica2012
Smaller fleas: viruses of microorganisms.
Review in Scientifica, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ampullaviruses: From Extreme Environments to Biotechnological Innovation.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025Review
- Translating phage therapy into the clinic: Recent accomplishments but continuing challenges.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Multiple waves of viral invasions in Symbiodiniaceae algal genomes.Virus evolution · 2022Article
- Viruses in fermented foods: are they good or bad? Two sides of the same coin.Food microbiology · 2021Review
- Characterization of a Novel Mitovirus of the Sand FlyViruses · 2020Article
- Biological and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Jumbo Bacteriophage, vB_VhaM_pir03 with Broad Host Lytic Activity againstPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Phage "delay" towards enhancing bacterial escape from biofilms: a more comprehensive way of viewing resistance to bacteriophages.AIMS microbiology · 2017Article
- Regulation of infection efficiency in a globally abundant marine Bacteriodetes virus.The ISME journal · 2017Article
- Impacts of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage Treatments on the Gut-Symbiont-Associated Blissus insularis (Hemiptera: Blissidae).Insects · 2016Article
- Bacteriophage secondary infection.Virologica Sinica · 2015Review
- Virus ecology and disturbances: impact of environmental disruption on the viruses of microorganisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2014Article
- Phage therapy: eco-physiological pharmacology.Scientifica · 2014Review
- Archaeal viruses, not archaeal phages: an archaeological dig.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2013Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Life forms can be roughly differentiated into those that are microscopic versus those that are not as well as those that are multicellular and those that, instead, are unicellular. Cellular organisms seem generally able to host viruses, and this propensity carries over to those that are both microscopic and less than truly multicellular. These viruses of microorganisms, or VoMs, in fact exist as the world's most abundant somewhat autonomous genetic entities and include the viruses of domain Bacteria (bacteriophages), the viruses of domain Archaea (archaeal viruses), the viruses of protists, the viruses of microscopic fungi such as yeasts (mycoviruses), and even the viruses of other viruses (satellite viruses). In this paper we provide an introduction to the concept of viruses of microorganisms, a.k.a., viruses of microbes. We provide broad discussion particularly of VoM diversity. VoM diversity currently spans, in total, at least three-dozen virus families. This is roughly ten families per category-bacterial, archaeal, fungal, and protist-with some virus families infecting more than one of these microorganism major taxa. Such estimations, however, will vary with further discovery and taxon assignment and also are dependent upon what forms of life one includes among microorganisms.
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