ArticleBMC biology2014
The origins of giant viruses, virophages and their relatives in host genomes.
Article in BMC biology, 2014. 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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- Biomathematical enzyme kinetics model of prebiotic autocatalytic RNA networks: degenerating parasite-specific hyperparasite catalysts confer parasite resistance and herald the birth of molecular immunity.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- 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 · 2024Review
- Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cell-virus-virophage systems.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
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- Evolutionary Analysis of Placental Orthologues Reveals Two Ancient DNA Virus Integrations.Journal of virology · 2022Article
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- Polintons, virophages and transpovirons: a tangled web linking viruses, transposons and immunity.Current opinion in virology · 2017Review
- A new marseillevirus isolated in Southern Brazil from Limnoperna fortunei.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Membrane dynamics associated with viral infection.Reviews in medical virology · 2016Review
- Fusion of a superfamily 1 helicase and an inactivated DNA polymerase is a signature of common evolutionary history of Polintons, polinton-like viruses, Tlr1 transposons and transpovirons.Virus evolution · 2016Article
- 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 · 2015Article
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Abstract
Giant viruses have revealed a number of surprises that challenge conventions on what constitutes a virus. The Samba virus newly isolated in Brazil expands the known distribution of giant mimiviruses to a near-global scale. These viruses, together with the transposon-related virophages that infect them, pose a number of questions about their evolutionary origins that need to be considered in the light of the complex entanglement between host, virus and virophage genomes.
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