Virophages, polintons, and transpovirons: a complex evolutionary network of diverse selfish genetic elements with different reproduction strategies

Diversity of Virophages in Metagenomic Data Sets

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

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

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Structure of Sputnik, a virophage, at 3.5-A resolution

(2012) X. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Transfer of a chromosomal Maverick to endogenous bracovirus in a parasitoid wasp

(2011) C. Dupuy et al.   GENETICA

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

DNA Viruses: The Really Big Ones (Giruses)

(2010) James L. Van Etten et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

Mimivirus: the emerging paradox of quasi-autonomous viruses

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

A new family of polymerases related to superfamily A DNA polymerases and T7-like DNA-dependent RNA polymerases

(2008) Lakshminarayan M Iyer et al.   Biology Direct

The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

(2008) N. Yutin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE

Virus evolution: how far does the double β-barrel viral lineage extend?

(2008) Mart Krupovič et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus

(2008) Didier Raoult et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY