Evolution of viruses and cells: do we need a fourth domain of life to explain the origin of eukaryotes?

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

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

A mutation burst during the acute phase of Helicobacter pylori infection in humans and rhesus macaques

(2014) Bodo Linz et al.   Nature Communications

The Wonderful World of Archaeal Viruses

(2013) David Prangishvili   Annual Review of Microbiology

Why Are There So Many Diverse Replication Machineries?

(2013) Patrick Forterre   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The Singular Quest for a Universal Tree of Life

(2013) J. Sapp et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

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

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Expanding the Marine Virosphere Using Metagenomics

(2013) Carolina Megumi Mizuno et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

(2012) Jonathan Lombard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery

(2012) John L Mokili et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Planctomycetes and eukaryotes: A case of analogy not homology

(2011) James O. McInerney et al.   BIOESSAYS

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

Stalking the Fourth Domain in Metagenomic Data: Searching for, Discovering, and Interpreting Novel, Deep Branches in Marker Gene Phylogenetic Trees

(2011) Dongying Wu et al.   PLoS One

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

Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae

(2011) D. Arslan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

(2011) Lionel Guy et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Viral mutation and substitution: units and levels

(2011) Robert Belshaw et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse?

(2010) Simonetta Gribaldo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic and Phyletic Studies of Informational Genes in Genomes Highlight Existence of a 4th Domain of Life Including Giant Viruses

(2010) Mickaël Boyer et al.   PLoS One

The Great Billion-year War between Ribosome- and Capsid-encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties

(2009) Patrick Forterre et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

(2009) David Moreira et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ten good reasons not to exclude giruses from the evolutionary picture

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

(2009) Francisco Rodriguez-Valera et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic evidence for extensive lateral acquisition of cellular genes by Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses

(2008) Jonathan Filée et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Giant viruses, giant chimeras: The multiple evolutionary histories of Mimivirus genes

(2008) David Moreira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinants

(2008) Siobain Duffy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Tracking microbial biodiversity through molecular and genomic ecology

(2007) Purificación López-García et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY