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

Reclassification of Giant Viruses Composing a Fourth Domain of Life in the New Order Megavirales

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

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

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets

(2011) Vincent Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Viruses with More Than 1,000 Genes: Mamavirus, a New Acanthamoeba polyphagamimivirus Strain, and Reannotation of Mimivirus Genes

(2011) Philippe Colson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Giant Cafeteria roenbergensis Virus That Infects a Widespread Marine Phagocytic Protist Is a New Member of the Fourth Domain of Life

(2011) Philippe Colson 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

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

Giant viruses in the environment: their origins and evolution

(2011) Takashi Yamada   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

Gene Repertoire of Amoeba-Associated Giant Viruses

(2010) Philippe Colson et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Amoebae as Genitors and Reservoirs of Giant Viruses

(2010) Didier Raoult et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Tentative Characterization of New Environmental Giant Viruses by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry

(2010) Bernard La Scola et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

The Three-Dimensional Structure of Mimivirus

(2010) Thomas Klose et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

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

Mimivirus: the emerging paradox of quasi-autonomous viruses

(2010) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

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

(2009) D. Byrne et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

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

Marine mimivirus relatives are probably large algal viruses

(2008) Adam Monier et al.   Virology Journal