Viva lavidaviruses! Five features of virophages that parasitize giant DNA viruses

Capsid protein structure, self-assembly, and processing reveal morphogenesis of the marine virophage mavirus

(2018) Diana Born et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecogenomics of virophages and their giant virus hosts assessed through time series metagenomics

(2017) Simon Roux et al.   Nature Communications

The role of hyperparasitism in microbial pathogen ecology and evolution

(2016) Steven R Parratt et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2016) Anthony Levasseur et al.   NATURE

Host genome integration and giant virus-induced reactivation of the virophage mavirus

(2016) Matthias G. Fischer et al.   NATURE

The Expanding Family of Virophages

(2016) Meriem Bekliz et al.   Viruses-Basel

Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Viruses: Five Lessons Learned about Large Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes and the Opportunities They Create

(2016) Steven W. Wilhelm et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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 virus of my virus is my friend: Ecological effects of virophage with alternative modes of coinfection

(2014) Bradford P. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Three Novel Virophage Genomes Discovered from Yellowstone Lake Metagenomes

(2014) Jinglie Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Polintons: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Zamilon, a Novel Virophage with Mimiviridae Host Specificity

(2014) Morgan Gaia et al.   PLoS One

Diversity of Virophages in Metagenomic Data Sets

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

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

(2013) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

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

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

A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons

(2011) M. G. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) M. Legendre et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

Mimivirus and its Virophage

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

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE