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

Giant viruses and the origin of modern eukaryotes

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

Giant Viruses of Amoebas: An Update

(2016) Sarah Aherfi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2015) Dorine Gaëlle Reteno et al.   JOURNAL 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

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

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

Plant genomes enclose footprints of past infections by giant virus relatives

(2014) Florian Maumus et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2013) Philippe Colson et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Towards defining the chloroviruses: a genomic journey through a genus of large DNA viruses

(2013) Adrien Jeanniard et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mechanisms and Dynamics of Orphan Gene Emergence in Insect Genomes

(2013) Lothar Wissler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Antiviral RNA interference in animals: piecing together the evidence

(2013) Mélanie Tanguy et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Genome of Acanthamoeba castellanii highlights extensive lateral gene transfer and early evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling

(2013) Michael Clarke et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The ecology of viruses that infect eukaryotic algae

(2012) Steven M. Short   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

RNA Silencing and Plant Viral Diseases

(2012) Ming-Bo Wang et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Endogenous viruses: insights into viral evolution and impact on host biology

(2012) Cédric Feschotte et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Informational Gene Phylogenies Do Not Support a Fourth Domain of Life for Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

(2011) Tom A. Williams et al.   PLoS One

BLAST-EXPLORER helps you building datasets for phylogenetic analysis

(2010) Alexis Dereeper et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

(2009) David Moreira et al.   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

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

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

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

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE