Evolution of double-stranded DNA viruses of eukaryotes: from bacteriophages to transposons to giant viruses

Conservation of major and minor jelly-roll capsid proteins in Polinton (Maverick) transposons suggests that they are bona fide viruses

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   Biology Direct

Virus World as an Evolutionary Network of Viruses and Capsidless Selfish Elements

(2014) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Polintons: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology

(2014) M. Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellular domains and viral lineages

(2014) Patrick Forterre et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Origin of giant viruses from smaller DNA viruses not from a fourth domain of cellular life

(2014) Natalya Yutin et al.   VIROLOGY

Phages Preying on Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus thuringiensis: Past, Present and Future

(2014) Annika Gillis et al.   Viruses-Basel

Evolution of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses of the Bidnaviridae family from genes of four other groups of widely different viruses

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   Scientific Reports

Structural similarities in DNA packaging and delivery apparatuses in Herpesvirus and dsDNA bacteriophages

(2014) Frazer J Rixon et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

“Megavirales”, a proposed new order for eukaryotic nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses

(2013) Philippe Colson et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Pandoraviruses are highly derived phycodnaviruses

(2013) Natalya Yutin et al.   Biology Direct

The Structure of the Herpes Simplex Virus DNA-Packaging Terminase pUL15 Nuclease Domain Suggests an Evolutionary Lineage among Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Viruses

(2013) S. Selvarajan Sigamani et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Structure of the archaeal head-tailed virus HSTV-1 completes the HK97 fold story

(2013) M. K. Pietila et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome of Phaeocystis globosa virus PgV-16T highlights the common ancestry of the largest known DNA viruses infecting eukaryotes

(2013) S. Santini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Virophages, polintons, and transpovirons: a complex evolutionary network of diverse selfish genetic elements with different reproduction strategies

(2013) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Mimiviridae: clusters of orthologous genes, reconstruction of gene repertoire evolution and proposed expansion of the giant virus family

(2013) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Networks of evolutionary interactions underlying the polyphyletic origin of ssDNA viruses

(2013) Mart Krupovic   Current Opinion in Virology

A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

(2013) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Giant viruses coexisted with the cellular ancestors and represent a distinct supergroup along with superkingdoms Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

(2012) Arshan Nasir et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Related Giant Viruses in Distant Locations and Different Habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus Represents a Third Lineage of the Mimiviridae That Is Close to the Megavirus Lineage

(2012) Niyaz Yoosuf et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Reclassification of Giant Viruses Composing a Fourth Domain of Life in the New Order Megavirales

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Orthologous Gene Clusters and Taxon Signature Genes for Viruses of Prokaryotes

(2012) D. M. Kristensen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Phylogeny and evolution of Hytrosaviridae

(2012) Johannes A. Jehle et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Hidden evolutionary complexity of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses of eukaryotes

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Viruses with More Than 1,000 Genes: Mamavirus, a New Acanthamoeba polyphagamimivirus Strain, and Reannotation of Mimivirus Genes

(2011) Philippe Colson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

What Does Virus Evolution Tell Us about Virus Origins?

(2011) E. C. Holmes   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Genomics of Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses: Dynamics within the Prokaryotic Virosphere

(2011) M. Krupovic et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Virophages or satellite viruses?

(2011) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Informational Gene Phylogenies Do Not Support a Fourth Domain of Life for Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

(2011) Tom A. Williams et al.   PLoS One

The Giant Cafeteria roenbergensis Virus That Infects a Widespread Marine Phagocytic Protist Is a New Member of the Fourth Domain of Life

(2011) Philippe Colson et al.   PLoS One

Paleozoic origin of insect large dsDNA viruses

(2011) J. Theze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

Another Really, Really Big Virus

(2011) James L. Van Etten   Viruses-Basel

Double-stranded DNA viruses: 20 families and only five different architectural principles for virion assembly

(2011) Mart Krupovic et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

DNA Viruses: The Really Big Ones (Giruses)

(2010) James L. Van Etten et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Order to the Viral Universe

(2010) M. Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Ginger DNA transposons in eukaryotes and their evolutionary relationships with long terminal repeat retrotransposons

(2010) Weidong Bao et al.   Mobile DNA

On the Origin of Cells and Viruses

(2009) Eugene V. Koonin   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Mimivirus and its Virophage

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Nudiviruses and other large, double-stranded circular DNA viruses of invertebrates: New insights on an old topic

(2009) Yongjie Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Retrotransposons Revisited: The Restraint and Rehabilitation of Parasites

(2008) John L. Goodier et al.   CELL

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE

Virus evolution: how far does the double β-barrel viral lineage extend?

(2008) Mart Krupovič et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY