Mimivirus: leading the way in the discovery of giant viruses of amoebae

ViromeScan: a new tool for metagenomic viral community profiling

(2016) Simone Rampelli et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Updating strategies for isolating and discovering giant viruses

(2016) Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mimivirus inaugurated in the 21st century the beginning of a reclassification of viruses

(2016) Vikas Sharma et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The role of giant viruses of amoebas in humans

(2016) Philippe Colson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Giant viruses and the origin of modern eukaryotes

(2016) Patrick Forterre et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of a Modern and FossilPithovirusReveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution

(2016) Anthony Levasseur et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Large Marseillevirus Explores Different Entry Pathways by Forming Giant Infectious Vesicles

(2016) Thalita Souza Arantes et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Marseillevirus in lymphoma: a giant in the lymph node

(2016) Sarah Aherfi et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MIMIVIRE is a defence system in mimivirus that confers resistance to virophage

(2016) Anthony Levasseur et al.   NATURE

Structure of faustovirus, a large dsDNA virus

(2016) Thomas Klose et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diverse evolutionary roots and mechanistic variations of the CRISPR-Cas systems

(2016) Prarthana Mohanraju et al.   SCIENCE

Giant Viruses of Amoebas: An Update

(2016) Sarah Aherfi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

High-Throughput Isolation of Giant Viruses in Liquid Medium Using Automated Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Staining

(2016) Jacques Y. B. Khalil et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

MG-Digger: An Automated Pipeline to Search for Giant Virus-Related Sequences in Metagenomes

(2016) Jonathan Verneau et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

CRISPR-Cas-like system in giant viruses: why MIMIVIRE is not likely to be an adaptive immune system

(2016) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   VIROLOGICA SINICA

A classification system for virophages and satellite viruses

(2015) Mart Krupovic et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

DNA transposons have colonized the genome of the giant virus Pandoravirus salinus

(2015) Cheng Sun et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Mimivirus Fibrils Are Important for Viral Attachment to the Microbial World by a Diverse Glycoside Interaction Repertoire

(2015) Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Faustovirus, an Asfarvirus-Related New Lineage of Giant Viruses Infecting Amoebae

(2015) Dorine Gaëlle Reteno et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Isolation of Vermamoeba vermiformis and associated bacteria in hospital water

(2015) Isabelle Pagnier et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

CRISPR-Cas immunity in prokaryotes

(2015) Luciano A. Marraffini   NATURE

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

(2015) David Moreira et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Provirophages in the Bigelowiella genome bear testimony to past encounters with giant viruses

(2015) Guillaume Blanc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In-depth study ofMollivirus sibericum, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infectingAcanthamoeba

(2015) Matthieu Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Mimivirus Enzyme that Participates in Viral Entry

(2015) Thomas Klose et al.   STRUCTURE

Absence of giant blood Marseille-like virus DNA detection by polymerase chain reaction in plasma from healthy US blood donors and serum from multiply transfused patients from Cameroon

(2015) Tung Gia Phan et al.   TRANSFUSION

Isolation of new Brazilian giant viruses from environmental samples using a panel of protozoa

(2015) Fábio P. Dornas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution

(2015) A. Nasir et al.   Science Advances

Oysters as hot spots for mimivirus isolation

(2014) Kétyllen R. Andrade et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Detects Hidden Giant Viruses in Published Databanks

(2014) Vikas Sharma et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

No Evidence of Marseillevirus-like Virus Presence in Blood Donors and Recipients of Multiple Blood Transfusions

(2014) V. Sauvage et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Genome Analysis of the First Marseilleviridae Representative from Australia Indicates that Most of Its Genes Contribute to Virus Fitness

(2014) G. Doutre et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Some secrets are revealed: parasitic keratitis amoebae as vectors of the scarcely described pandoraviruses to humans

(2014) Patrick Scheid et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus Stability in Environmental and Clinical Substrates: Implications for Virus Detection and Isolation

(2014) Fábio P. Dornas et al.   PLoS One

Zamilon, a Novel Virophage with Mimiviridae Host Specificity

(2014) Morgan Gaia 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

Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon

(2014) Rafael K Campos et al.   Virology Journal

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

(2013) Philippe Colson et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

First Isolation of Mimivirus in a Patient With Pneumonia

(2013) Hanene Saadi et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

TRUC or the Need for a New Microbial Classification

(2013) Didier Raoult   INTERVIROLOGY

Alcohol Disinfection Procedure for Isolating Giant Viruses from Contaminated Samples

(2013) Meriem Slimani et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Real-Time PCR Systems Targeting Giant Viruses of Amoebae and Their Virophages

(2013) Tatsiana Ngounga et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

A Decade of Improvements in Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae Isolation from Amoeba

(2013) Isabelle Pagnier et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Lausannevirus Seroprevalence among Asymptomatic Young Adults

(2013) Linda Mueller et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Marseillevirus Adenitis in an 11-Month-Old Child

(2013) N. Popgeorgiev et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of the megavirome in humans

(2013) Philippe Colson et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Marseillevirus-Like Virus Recovered From Blood Donated by Asymptomatic Humans

(2013) Nikolay Popgeorgiev et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Diversity of Virophages in Metagenomic Data Sets

(2013) J. Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

A resourceful giant: APMV is able to interfere with the human type I interferon system

(2013) Lorena C.F. Silva et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Broad Spectrum of Mimiviridae Virophage Allows Its Isolation Using a Mimivirus Reporter

(2013) Morgan Gaia et al.   PLoS One

Identification of Hepatotropic Viruses from Plasma Using Deep Sequencing: A Next Generation Diagnostic Tool

(2013) John Law et al.   PLoS One

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

First Isolation of a Giant Virus from Wild Hirudo medicinalis Leech: Mimiviridae isolation in Hirudo medicinalis

(2013) Mondher Boughalmi et al.   Viruses-Basel

Membrane Assembly during the Infection Cycle of the Giant Mimivirus

(2013) Yael Mutsafi et al.   PLoS Pathogens

“Marseilleviridae”, a new family of giant viruses infecting amoebae

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

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

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

Translation in Giant Viruses: A Unique Mixture of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Termination Schemes

(2012) Sandra Jeudy et al.   PLoS Genetics

Lamarckian evolution of the giant Mimivirus in allopatric laboratory culture on amoebae

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets

(2011) Vincent Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Dating in the Evolution of Vertebrate Poxviruses

(2011) Igor V. Babkin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

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

Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture

(2011) M. Boyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics

(2011) S. Yau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

Breaking the 1000-gene barrier for Mimivirus using ultra-deep genome and transcriptome sequencing

(2011) Matthieu Legendre et al.   Virology Journal

Virus factories, double membrane vesicles and viroplasm generated in animal cells

(2011) Christopher L Netherton et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

mRNA deep sequencing reveals 75 new genes and a complex transcriptional landscape in Mimivirus

(2010) M. Legendre et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Giant Viruses: Conflicts in Revisiting the Virus Concept

(2010) Patrick Forterre   INTERVIROLOGY

Amoebae as Genitors and Reservoirs of Giant Viruses

(2010) Didier Raoult et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Classification and Determination of Possible Origins of ORFans through Analysis of Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

(2010) Mickaël Boyer et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

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

Vaccinia-like cytoplasmic replication of the giant Mimivirus

(2010) Y. Mutsafi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton

(2010) M. G. Fischer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomic force microscopy investigation of the giant mimivirus

(2010) Yuri G. Kuznetsov et al.   VIROLOGY

Mimivirus and its Virophage

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

Revised Mimivirus major capsid protein sequence reveals intron-containing gene structure and extra domain

(2009) Saïd Azza et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The polyadenylation site of Mimivirus transcripts obeys a stringent 'hairpin rule'

(2009) D. Byrne et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

There is no such thing as a tree of life (and of course viruses are out!)

(2009) Didier Raoult   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms

(2009) M. Boyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

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

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

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Structural Studies of the Giant Mimivirus

(2009) Chuan Xiao et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2008) David Moreira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE

Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus

(2008) Didier Raoult et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Distinct DNA Exit and Packaging Portals in the Virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus

(2008) Nathan Zauberman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ameobal Pathogen Mimivirus Infects Macrophages through Phagocytosis

(2008) Eric Ghigo et al.   PLoS Pathogens