Viruses Defined by the Position of the Virosphere within the Replicator Space

Phylogenomics of the Maverick Virus-like Mobile Genetic Elements of Vertebrates

(2021) Jose Gabriel Nino Barreat et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diversification of mammalian deltaviruses by host shifting

(2021) Laura M. Bergner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System Goes Viral

(2021) Michael P. Hantak et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

A Place for Viruses on the Tree of Life

(2021) Hugh M. B. Harris et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Polinton-like viruses are abundant in aquatic ecosystems

(2021) Christopher M. Bellas et al.   Microbiome

Identification of novel avian and mammalian deltaviruses provides new insights into deltavirus evolution

(2021) Masashi Iwamoto et al.   Virus Evolution

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pseudoviridae

(2021) Carlos Llorens et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Bacteria have numerous distinctive groups of phage–plasmids with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires

(2021) Eugen Pfeifer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Plant virus evolution under strong drought conditions results in a transition from parasitism to mutualism

(2021) Rubén González et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid emergence of virus–host mutualism under stress

(2021) Valerian V. Dolja   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeal extracellular vesicles are produced in an ESCRT-dependent manner and promote gene transfer and nutrient cycling in extreme environments

(2021) Junfeng Liu et al.   ISME Journal

Current view and perspectives in viroid replication

(2021) Ying Wang   Current Opinion in Virology

The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease

(2021) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Adnaviria : a New Realm for Archaeal Filamentous Viruses with Linear A-Form Double-Stranded DNA Genomes

(2021) Mart Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Are there 1031 virus particles on Earth, or more, or less?

(2020) A.R. Mushegian   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

(2020) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Facilitative and synergistic interactions between fungal and plant viruses

(2020) Ruiling Bian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deep Roots and Splendid Boughs of the Global Plant Virome

(2020) Valerian V. Dolja et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Translating the language of giants: translation-related genes as a major contribution of giant viruses to the virosphere

(2020) Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Cressdnaviricota: a Virus Phylum Unifying Seven Families of Rep-Encoding Viruses with Single-Stranded, Circular DNA Genomes

(2020) Mart Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

The LUCA and its complex virome

(2020) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Structures of filamentous viruses infecting hyperthermophilic archaea explain DNA stabilization in extreme environments

(2020) Fengbin Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammalian deltavirus without hepadnavirus coinfection in the neotropical rodentProechimys semispinosus

(2020) Sofia Paraskevopoulou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure and mechanism of DNA delivery of a gene transfer agent

(2020) Pavol Bárdy et al.   Nature Communications

Giant viruses

(2020) Chantal Abergel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Metaviridae

(2020) Carlos Llorens et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

The role of circular RNAs in viral infection and related diseases

(2020) He Xie et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

Comprehensive genomic analysis reveals dynamic evolution of endogenous retroviruses that code for retroviral-like protein domains

(2020) Mahoko Takahashi Ueda et al.   Mobile DNA

Evolution of a major virion protein of the giant pandoraviruses from an inactivated bacterial glycoside hydrolase

(2020) Mart Krupovic et al.   Virus Evolution

Long Noncoding RNAs in Plant Viroids and Viruses: A Review

(2020) Nipin Shrestha et al.   Pathogens

Investigating the Concept and Origin of Viruses

(2020) Arshan Nasir et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular interactions of plant viral satellites

(2020) Uzma Badar et al.   VIRUS GENES

A Singular and Widespread Group of Mobile Genetic Elements: RNA Circles with Autocatalytic Ribozymes

(2020) Marcos de la Peña et al.   Cells

Endornaviruses: persistent dsRNA viruses with symbiotic properties in diverse eukaryotes

(2019) Toshiyuki Fukuhara   VIRUS GENES

Numerous cultivated and uncultivated viruses encode ribosomal proteins

(2019) Carolina M. Mizuno et al.   Nature Communications

Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts

(2019) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Origins and evolutionary consequences of ancient endogenous retroviruses

(2019) Welkin E. Johnson   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Enveloped viruses distinct from HBV induce dissemination of hepatitis D virus in vivo

(2019) Jimena Perez-Vargas et al.   Nature Communications

Phage tail-like particles are versatile bacterial nanomachines – A mini-review

(2019) Sascha Patz et al.   Journal of Advanced Research

Multiple origins of prokaryotic and eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses from bacterial and archaeal plasmids

(2019) Darius Kazlauskas et al.   Nature Communications

Extracellular vesicles mediate the horizontal transfer of an active LINE-1 retrotransposon

(2019) Yumi Kawamura et al.   Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Evolutionary entanglement of mobile genetic elements and host defence systems: guns for hire

(2019) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Journey of begomovirus betasatellite molecules: from satellites to indispensable partners

(2019) Muhammad Mubin et al.   VIRUS GENES

Molecular Piracy: Redirection of Bacteriophage Capsid Assembly by Mobile Genetic Elements

(2019) Terje Dokland   Viruses-Basel

Exploration of the propagation of transpovirons within Mimiviridae reveals a unique example of commensalism in the viral world

(2019) Sandra Jeudy et al.   ISME Journal

How pirate phage interferes with helper phage: Comparison of the two distinct strategies

(2019) Namiko Mitarai   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Alphasatellitidae: a new family with two subfamilies for the classification of geminivirus- and nanovirus-associated alphasatellites

(2018) Rob W. Briddon et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Morphologic and Genomic Analyses of New Isolates Reveal a Second Lineage of Cedratviruses

(2018) Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Ortervirales : New Virus Order Unifying Five Families of Reverse-Transcribing Viruses

(2018) Mart Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Contractile injection systems of bacteriophages and related systems

(2018) Nicholas M. I. Taylor et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Vast diversity of prokaryotic virus genomes encoding double jelly-roll major capsid proteins uncovered by genomic and metagenomic sequence analysis

(2018) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Diversity and evolution of the emerging Pandoraviridae family

(2018) Matthieu Legendre et al.   Nature Communications

Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere

(2018) Jônatas Abrahão et al.   Nature Communications

Analysis of DNAs associated with coconut foliar decay disease implicates a unique single-stranded DNA virus representing a new taxon

(2018) Bruno Gronenborn et al.   Scientific Reports

Orpheovirus IHUMI-LCC2: A New Virus among the Giant Viruses

(2018) Julien Andreani et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition

(2018) Philippe Colson et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

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(2018)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural conservation in a membrane-enveloped filamentous virus infecting a hyperthermophilic acidophile

(2018) Ying Liu et al.   Nature Communications

The depths of virus exaptation

(2018) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

New isolates of pandoraviruses: contribution to the study of replication cycle steps

(2018) Ana Cláudia dos Santos Pereira Andrade et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses

(2018) Jie Cui et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds

(2018) Michelle Wille et al.   Viruses-Basel

Insight into the Contribution and Disruption of Host Processes during HDV Replication

(2018) Gabrielle Goodrum et al.   Viruses-Basel

Origins and Evolution of the Global RNA Virome

(2018) Yuri I. Wolf et al.   mBio

Ancestrality and Mosaicism of Giant Viruses Supporting the Definition of the Fourth TRUC of Microbes

(2018) Philippe Colson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The dual life of ichnoviruses

(2018) Isabelle Darboux et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Homologous Capsid Proteins Testify to the Common Ancestry of Retroviruses, Caulimoviruses, Pseudoviruses, and Metaviruses

(2017) Mart Krupovic et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The recurrent domestication of viruses: major evolutionary transitions in parasitic wasps

(2017) Jérémy Gauthier et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Multiple origins of viral capsid proteins from cellular ancestors

(2017) Mart Krupovic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components

(2017) Frederik Schulz et al.   SCIENCE

Complete fusion of a transposon and herpesvirus created the Teratorn mobile element in medaka fish

(2017) Yusuke Inoue et al.   Nature Communications

Polintons, virophages and transpovirons: a tangled web linking viruses, transposons and immunity

(2017) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Endogenous viruses of parasitic wasps: variations on a common theme

(2017) Jean-Michel Drezen et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Model for a novel membrane envelope in a filamentous hyperthermophilic virus

(2017) Peter Kasson et al.   eLife

Using bioinformatic and phylogenetic approaches to classify transposable elements and understand their complex evolutionary histories

(2017) Irina R. Arkhipova   Mobile DNA

Advances in the study of nodavirus

(2017) Chean Yeah Yong et al.   PeerJ

The Distribution, Evolution, and Roles of Gene Transfer Agents in Prokaryotic Genetic Exchange

(2017) Andrew S. Lang et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Giant Viruses of Amoebae: A Journey Through Innovative Research and Paradigm Changes

(2017) Philippe Colson et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Widespread distribution of encapsulin nanocompartments reveals functional diversity

(2017) Tobias W. Giessen et al.   Nature Microbiology

A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells

(2017) Svetlana Fridman et al.   Nature Microbiology

A plasmid from an Antarctic haloarchaeon uses specialized membrane vesicles to disseminate and infect plasmid-free cells

(2017) Susanne Erdmann et al.   Nature Microbiology

Self-synthesizing transposons: unexpected key players in the evolution of viruses and defense systems

(2016) Mart Krupovic et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Inevitability of Genetic Parasites

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phage-inducible islands in the Gram-positive cocci

(2016) Roser Martínez-Rubio et al.   ISME Journal

Bipartite Network Analysis of the Archaeal Virosphere: Evolutionary Connections between Viruses and Capsidless Mobile Elements

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Redefining the invertebrate RNA virosphere

(2016) Mang Shi et al.   NATURE

Nuclear landscape of HIV-1 infection and integration

(2016) Marina Lusic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Deciphering the biology of deltasatellites from the New World: maintenance by New World begomoviruses and whitefly transmission

(2016) Elvira Fiallo-Olivé et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The logic of DNA replication in double-stranded DNA viruses: insights from global analysis of viral genomes

(2016) Darius Kazlauskas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Forks in the tracks: Group II introns, spliceosomes, telomeres and beyond

(2016) Rajendra Kumar Agrawal et al.   RNA Biology

Characterization of a novel Sclerotinia sclerotiorum RNA virus as the prototype of a new proposed family within the order Tymovirales

(2016) Kunfei Li et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

Infectivity, effects on helper viruses and whitefly transmission of the deltasatellites associated with sweepoviruses (genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae)

(2016) Ishtiaq Hassan et al.   Scientific Reports

Viruses as Winners in the Game of Life

(2016) Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Microbial diversity: The tree of life comes of age

(2016) Anja Spang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

(2016) Charles H. Wigington et al.   Nature Microbiology

Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor

(2016) R. Danovaro et al.   Science Advances

A classification system for virophages and satellite viruses

(2015) Mart Krupovic et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

A novel group of diverse Polinton-like viruses discovered by metagenome analysis

(2015) Natalya Yutin et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Divergent Viruses Discovered in Arthropods and Vertebrates Revise the Evolutionary History of the Flaviviridae and Related Viruses

(2015) Mang Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

A virus that infects a hyperthermophile encapsidates A-form DNA

(2015) F. DiMaio et al.   SCIENCE

Chemistry and Biology of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes

(2015) Randi M. Jimenez et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

The Tailocin Tale: Peeling off Phage Tails

(2015) Maarten G.K. Ghequire et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

50-plus years of fungal viruses

(2015) Said A. Ghabrial et al.   VIROLOGY

Viroids, the simplest RNA replicons: How they manipulate their hosts for being propagated and how their hosts react for containing the infection

(2015) R. Flores et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

Tsv-N1: A Novel DNA Algal Virus that Infects Tetraselmis striata

(2015) António Pagarete et al.   Viruses-Basel

Widespread mitovirus sequences in plant genomes

(2015) Jeremy A. Bruenn et al.   PeerJ

The Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands: A Family of Highly Evolved Molecular Parasites

(2015) José R. Penadés et al.   Annual Review of Virology

The origins of cellular life

(2014) Eugene V. Koonin   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Shedding new light on viral photosynthesis

(2014) Richard J. Puxty et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial Reverse Transcriptases

(2014) Nicolás Toro et al.   PLoS One

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

Novel coding, translation, and gene expression of a replicating covalently closed circular RNA of 220 nt

(2014) Mounir Georges AbouHaidar 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

Advances in Understanding Begomovirus Satellites

(2013) Xueping Zhou   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Extracellular membrane vesicles harbouring viral genomes

(2013) Marie Gaudin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

TRUC or the Need for a New Microbial Classification

(2013) Didier Raoult   INTERVIROLOGY

When parasitic wasps hijacked viruses: genomic and functional evolution of polydnaviruses

(2013) E. A. Herniou et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comprehensive Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial Group II Intron-Encoded ORFs Lacking the DNA Endonuclease Domain Reveals New Varieties

(2013) Nicolás Toro et al.   PLoS One

Insights into Dynamics of Mobile Genetic Elements in Hyperthermophilic Environments from Five New Thermococcus Plasmids

(2013) Mart Krupovic et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Networks of evolutionary interactions underlying the polyphyletic origin of ssDNA viruses

(2013) Mart Krupovic   Current Opinion in Virology

Polydnavirus-wasp associations: evolution, genome organization, and function

(2013) Michael R Strand et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

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

Assessment of viral community functional potential from viral metagenomes may be hampered by contamination with cellular sequences

(2013) S. Roux et al.   Open Biology

The virocell concept and environmental microbiology

(2012) Patrick Forterre   ISME Journal

Orthologous Gene Clusters and Taxon Signature Genes for Viruses of Prokaryotes

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

The Mu transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution

(2012) Sherwin P. Montaño et al.   NATURE

Gene transfer agents: phage-like elements of genetic exchange

(2012) Andrew S. Lang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

Pirates of the Caudovirales

(2012) Gail E. Christie et al.   VIROLOGY

The role of genes domesticated from LTR retrotransposons and retroviruses in mammals

(2012) Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The remarkable evolutionary history of endornaviruses

(2011) M. J. Roossinck et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

A widespread class of reverse transcriptase-related cellular genes

(2011) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Rolling-circle replication of viroids, viroid-like satellite RNAs and hepatitis delta virus: Variations on a theme

(2011) Ricardo Flores et al.   RNA Biology

Herpesviruses and Chromosomal Integration

(2010) G. Morissette et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of mobile genetic elements: release 2.0

(2010) C. Llorens et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature

(2010) Ramy K. Aziz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Retroelements and their impact on genome evolution and functioning

(2009) Elena Gogvadze et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Roles of viruses in the environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

(2009) David Moreira et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses in the living world

(2009) H. Brussow   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

(2009) David M. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus

(2008) Didier Raoult et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY