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

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

Casposons: a new superfamily of self-synthesizing DNA transposons at the origin of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Crystal Structure of Vaccinia Virus mRNA Capping Enzyme Provides Insights into the Mechanism and Evolution of the Capping Apparatus

(2014) Otto J.P. Kyrieleis et al.   STRUCTURE

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

Bombyx mori bidensovirus: The type species of the new genus Bidensovirus in the new family Bidnaviridae

(2013) ZhaoYang Hu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Atomic structure of the 75 MDa extremophile Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus determined by CryoEM and X-ray crystallography

(2013) D. Veesler 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

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

Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus 1 Proteome Reveals Novel Architectural and Regulatory Features of a Giant Virus

(2012) David D. Dunigan et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Structure of Sputnik, a virophage, at 3.5-A resolution

(2012) X. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses

(2012) C. Desnues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Latest Insights on Adenovirus Structure and Assembly

(2012) Carmen San Martín   Viruses-Basel

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

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Structures of giant icosahedral eukaryotic dsDNA viruses

(2011) Chuan Xiao et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

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

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Weidong Bao et al.   Mobile DNA

Mimivirus and its Virophage

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

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

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

A new family of polymerases related to superfamily A DNA polymerases and T7-like DNA-dependent RNA polymerases

(2008) Lakshminarayan M Iyer et al.   Biology Direct

Retrotransposons Revisited: The Restraint and Rehabilitation of Parasites

(2008) John L. Goodier et al.   CELL

Insights into Virus Evolution and Membrane Biogenesis from the Structure of the Marine Lipid-Containing Bacteriophage PM2

(2008) Nicola G.A. Abrescia et al.   MOLECULAR 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

Linear plasmids in plant mitochondria: Peaceful coexistences or malicious invasions?

(2007) Hirokazu Handa   MITOCHONDRION