A Glimpse of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Virus Biodiversity through the Eukaryotic Genomics Window

Giant viruses come of age

(2016) Matthias G Fischer   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Study of Gene Trafficking betweenAcanthamoebaand Giant Viruses Suggests an Undiscovered Family of Amoeba-Infecting Viruses

(2016) Florian Maumus et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Diurnal Transcriptional Regulation of Endosymbiotically Derived Genes in the ChlorarachniophyteBigelowiella natans

(2016) Shigekatsu Suzuki et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Linking Virus Genomes with Host Taxonomy

(2016) Tomoko Mihara et al.   Viruses-Basel

Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate that Early Fungi Evolved Digesting Cell Walls of Algal Ancestors of Land Plants

(2015) Ying Chang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Counts and sequences, observations that continue to change our understanding of viruses in nature

(2015) K. Eri Wommack et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases via Interaction Between Cells and Large DNA Viruses

(2015) Masaharu Takemura et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

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

The genome ofAiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

(2015) Sebastian Baumgarten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Saccharina genomes provide novel insight into kelp biology

(2015) Naihao Ye et al.   Nature Communications

Endogenous viral elements in algal genomes

(2014) Liang Wang et al.   ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA

Unveiling of the Diversity of Prasinoviruses (Phycodnaviridae) in Marine Samples by Using High-Throughput Sequencing Analyses of PCR-Amplified DNA Polymerase and Major Capsid Protein Genes

(2014) Camille Clerissi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structure of large dsDNA viruses

(2014) Thomas Klose et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

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

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

Multiple occurrences of giant virus core genes acquired by eukaryotic genomes: The visible part of the iceberg?

(2014) Jonathan Filée   VIROLOGY

Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation

(2014) Koichi Hori et al.   Nature Communications

Plant genomes enclose footprints of past infections by giant virus relatives

(2014) Florian Maumus et al.   Nature Communications

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project

(2014) Naim Matasci et al.   GigaScience

Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes

(2013) Pascal Hingamp et al.   ISME Journal

Plant Expansins in Bacteria and Fungi: Evolution by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Independent Domain Fusion

(2013) Nikolas Nikolaidis et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

The ecology of viruses that infect eukaryotic algae

(2012) Steven M. Short   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

(2011) J. K. Colbourne et al.   SCIENCE

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

Chloroviruses: not your everyday plant virus

(2011) James L. Van Etten et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

BLAST-EXPLORER helps you building datasets for phylogenetic analysis

(2010) Alexis Dereeper et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gene Exchange and the Origin of Giant Viruses

(2010) Jonathan Filée et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

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

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

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

The genome of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus contains a series of viral DNA pieces, suggesting an ancient association with large dsDNA viruses

(2008) Nicolas Delaroque et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY