Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174

Diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Temperate Phages

(2022) Genevieve Johnson et al.   mSphere

Complete genome analysis of the newly isolated Vibrio phage vB_VpP_WS1 of the family Microviridae

(2022) Wenjing Xu et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

The pediatric virome in health and disease

(2022) Guanxiang Liang et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

The virota and its transkingdom interactions in the healthy infant gut

(2022) Leen Beller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organizing the Global Diversity of Microviruses

(2022) Paul C. Kirchberger et al.   mBio

Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes

(2022) Brayon J. Fremin et al.   Cell Reports

Viral biogeography of the mammalian gut and parenchymal organs

(2022) Andrey N. Shkoporov et al.   Nature Microbiology

New Microviridae Isolated from Sulfitobacter Reveals Two Cosmopolitan Subfamilies of ssDNA Phages Infecting Marine and Terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria

(2022) Falk Zucker et al.   Virus Evolution

Characterization and Genomic Analysis of ssDNA Vibriophage vB_VpaM_PG19 within Microviridae , Representing a Novel Viral Genus

(2022) Ruizhe Guo et al.   Microbiology Spectrum

Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

(2022) Peter J. Walker et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

An expanded arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages

(2022) Adi Millman et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Cryo-EM Structure of Gokushovirus ΦEC6098 Reveals a Novel Capsid Architecture for a Single-Scaffolding Protein, Microvirus Assembly System

(2022) Hyunwook Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Extensive gut virome variation and its associations with host and environmental factors in a population-level cohort

(2022) Suguru Nishijima et al.   Nature Communications

Novel lineages of single-stranded DNA phages that coevolved with the symbiotic bacteria Rhizobium

(2022) Jannick Van Cauwenberghe et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Reekeekee- and roodoodooviruses, two different Microviridae clades constituted by the smallest DNA phages

(2022) Eric Olo Ndela et al.   Virus Evolution

Massive expansion of human gut bacteriophage diversity

(2021) Luis F. Camarillo-Guerrero et al.   CELL

Functional Restoration of Bacteriomes and Viromes by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

(2021) Kosuke Fujimoto et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Spatial patterns in phage-Rhizobium coevolutionary interactions across regions of common bean domestication

(2021) Jannick Van Cauwenberghe et al.   ISME Journal

Standard Bacteriophage Purification Procedures Cause Loss in Numbers and Activity

(2021) Amanda Carroll-Portillo et al.   Viruses-Basel

Biases in Viral Metagenomics-Based Detection, Cataloguing and Quantification of Bacteriophage Genomes in Human Faeces, a Review

(2021) Julie Callanan et al.   Microorganisms

Probing the “Dark Matter” of the Human Gut Phageome: Culture Assisted Metagenomics Enables Rapid Discovery and Host-Linking for Novel Bacteriophages

(2021) C. Brian Fitzgerald et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Legionella pneumophila CRISPR-Cas Suggests Recurrent Encounters with One or More Phages in the Family Microviridae

(2021) Shayna R. Deecker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Highly diverse flavobacterial phages isolated from North Sea spring blooms

(2021) Nina Bartlau et al.   ISME Journal

Defensive hypervariable regions confer superinfection exclusion in microviruses

(2021) Paul C. Kirchberger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Future of Virology is Synthetic

(2021) Richard Allen White   mSystems

Vibrio Clade 3.0: New Vibrionaceae Evolutionary Units Using Genome-Based Approach

(2021) Chunqi Jiang et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Adaptation of the polony technique to quantify Gokushovirinae , a diverse group of single‐stranded DNA phage

(2021) Natalie A. Sawaya et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses

(2021) Bas E Dutilh et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Systematic exploration of Escherichia coli phage–host interactions with the BASEL phage collection

(2021) Enea Maffei et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Diversity, taxonomy, and evolution of archaeal viruses of the class Caudoviricetes

(2021) Ying Liu et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Comprehensive discovery of CRISPR-targeted terminally redundant sequences in the human gut metagenome: Viruses, plasmids, and more

(2021) Ryota Sugimoto et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Novel Microviridae Phage (CLasMV1) From “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus”

(2021) Ling Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

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

Vladimir Sertić: forgotten pioneer of virology and bacteriophage therapy

(2020) Zdravko Lacković et al.   Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science

Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses

(2020) Michael J Tisza et al.   eLife

Resurrection of a global, metagenomically defined Gokushovirus

(2020) Paul C Kirchberger et al.   eLife

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

Human-Gut-DNA Virome Variations across Geography, Ethnicity, and Urbanization

(2020) Tao Zuo et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut

(2020) Ann C. Gregory et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Single-gene lysis in the metagenomic era

(2020) Karthik R Chamakura et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Missing Tailed Phages: Prediction of Small Capsid Candidates

(2020) Antoni Luque et al.   Microorganisms

CRISPR analysis suggests that small circular single-stranded DNA smacoviruses infect Archaea instead of humans

(2019) César Díez-Villaseñor et al.   Nature Communications

Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole

(2019) Ann C. Gregory et al.   CELL

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

(2019) Darius Kazlauskas et al.   Nature Communications

Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils

(2019) Gareth Trubl et al.   PeerJ

Defining the human gut host–phage network through single-cell viral tagging

(2019) Mária Džunková et al.   Nature Microbiology

Definitive demonstration by synthesis of genome annotation completeness

(2019) Paul R. Jaschke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread distribution of prophage-encoded virulence factors in marine Vibrio communities

(2018) Daniel Castillo et al.   Scientific Reports

Metavirome Sequencing of the Termite Gut Reveals the Presence of an Unexplored Bacteriophage Community

(2018) Chinmay V. Tikhe et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Quantitative Viral Community DNA Analysis Reveals the Dominance of Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Offshore Upper Bathyal Sediment from Tohoku, Japan

(2018) Mitsuhiro Yoshida et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Virus Infecting Marine Photoheterotrophic Alphaproteobacteria (Citromicrobium spp.) Defines a New Lineage of ssDNA Viruses

(2018) Qiang Zheng et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The smallest ssDNA phage infecting a marine bacterium

(2018) Yuanchao Zhan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria

(2018) Kathryn M. Kauffman et al.   NATURE

Unprecedented Diversity of ssDNA Phages from the Family Microviridae Detected within the Gut of a Protochordate Model Organism (Ciona robusta)

(2018) Alexandria Creasy et al.   Viruses-Basel

Recessive Host Range Mutants and Unsusceptible Cells That Inactivate Virions without Genome Penetration: Ecological and Technical Implications

(2018) Aaron P. Roznowski et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

ΦCrAss001 represents the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut and infects Bacteroides intestinalis

(2018) Andrey N. Shkoporov et al.   Nature Communications

Long-term colonisation with donor bacteriophages following successful faecal microbial transplantation

(2018) L. A. Draper et al.   Microbiome

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

Capsids and Genomes of Jumbo-Sized Bacteriophages Reveal the Evolutionary Reach of the HK97 Fold

(2017) Jianfei Hua et al.   mBio

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee

(2016) Mart Krupovic et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

PhagesDB: the actinobacteriophage database

(2016) Daniel A Russell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mechanisms of viral mutation

(2016) Rafael Sanjuán et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Uncovering Earth’s virome

(2016) David Paez-Espino et al.   NATURE

How Xer-exploiting mobile elements overcome cellular control

(2016) Caroline Midonet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards quantitative viromics for both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses

(2016) Simon Roux et al.   PeerJ

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

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

Tracking the changes in virus taxonomy

(2015) M. J. Adams et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Disease-Specific Alterations in the Enteric Virome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

(2015) Jason M. Norman et al.   CELL

A novel sister clade to the enterobacteria microviruses (familyMicroviridae) identified in methane seep sediments

(2015) Samuel Joseph Bryson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Early life dynamics of the human gut virome and bacterial microbiome in infants

(2015) Efrem S Lim et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

NGS library preparation for balanced, comprehensive methylome coverage from low-input quantities

(2015) Cassie Schumacher et al.   NATURE METHODS

Gut DNA viromes of Malawian twins discordant for severe acute malnutrition

(2015) Alejandro Reyes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-scale contamination of microbial isolate genomes by Illumina PhiX control

(2015) Supratim Mukherjee et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Diversity and comparative genomics of Microviridae in Sphagnum- dominated peatlands

(2015) Achim Quaiser et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Diversity of environmental single-stranded DNA phages revealed by PCR amplification of the partial major capsid protein

(2014) Max Hopkins et al.   ISME Journal

High-Resolution Structure of a Virally Encoded DNA-Translocating Conduit and the Mechanism of DNA Penetration

(2014) L. Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Ecology and evolution of viruses infecting uncultivated SUP05 bacteria as revealed by single-cell- and meta-genomics

(2014) Simon Roux et al.   eLife

Chlamydia bacteriophages

(2013) Joanna Śliwa-Dominiak et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Icosahedral bacteriophage ΦX174 forms a tail for DNA transport during infection

(2013) Lei Sun et al.   NATURE

Breaking and joining single-stranded DNA: the HUH endonuclease superfamily

(2013) Michael Chandler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid evolution of the human gut virome

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

Twelve previously unknown phage genera are ubiquitous in global oceans

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

Networks of evolutionary interactions underlying the polyphyletic origin of ssDNA viruses

(2013) Mart Krupovic   Current Opinion in Virology

Metagenomic and whole-genome analysis reveals new lineages of gokushoviruses and biogeographic separation in the sea

(2013) Jessica M. Labonté et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A common, non-optimal phenotypic endpoint in experimental adaptations of bacteriophage lysis time

(2012) Lynne Chantranupong et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diverse circular ssDNA viruses discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Epiprocta)

(2012) K. Rosario et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Whole-Genome Synthesis and Characterization of Viable S13-Like Bacteriophages

(2012) Yuchen Liu et al.   PLoS One

Evolution and Diversity of the Microviridae Viral Family through a Collection of 81 New Complete Genomes Assembled from Virome Reads

(2012) Simon Roux et al.   PLoS One

Cultivated Single-Stranded DNA Phages That Infect Marine Bacteroidetes Prove Difficult To Detect with DNA-Binding Stains

(2011) Karin Holmfeldt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Amplification Methods Bias Metagenomic Libraries of Uncultured Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Viruses

(2011) Kyoung-Ho Kim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microviridae Goes Temperate: Microvirus-Related Proviruses Reside in the Genomes of Bacteroidetes

(2011) Mart Krupovic et al.   PLoS One

Uncoupling the functions of a multifunctional protein: The isolation of a DNA pilot protein mutant that affects particle morphogenesis

(2011) James E. Cherwa et al.   VIROLOGY

Bacteriophage PhiX174's Ecological Niche and the Flexibility of Its Escherichia coli Lipopolysaccharide Receptor

(2010) A. Michel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Efficacy of a Broad Host Range Lytic Bacteriophage Against E. coli Adhered to Urothelium

(2010) Sanna Sillankorva et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple displacement amplification compromises quantitative analysis of metagenomes

(2010) Suzan Yilmaz et al.   NATURE METHODS

Experimental evolution of viruses: Microviridae as a model system

(2010) H. A. Wichman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2009)

(2009) E. B. Carstens   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Point Mutation Rate of Bacteriophage  X174

(2009) J. M. Cuevas et al.   GENETICS

The Genetics of Adaptation for Eight Microvirid Bacteriophages

(2009) Darin R. Rokyta et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes

(2009) Rebecca V Thurber et al.   Nature Protocols

Behind the chlamydial cloak: The replication cycle of chlamydiaphage Chp2, revealed

(2008) Omar Salim et al.   VIROLOGY