A new species of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA virus (NCLDV) associated with mortalities in Manitoba lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens

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

Iridovirus Infections among Missouri River Sturgeon: Initial Characterization, Transmission, and Evidence for Establishment of a Carrier State

(2011) T. Kurobe et al.   JOURNAL OF AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH

T-Coffee: a web server for the multiple sequence alignment of protein and RNA sequences using structural information and homology extension

(2011) P. Di Tommaso et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

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

Breaking the 1000-gene barrier for Mimivirus using ultra-deep genome and transcriptome sequencing

(2011) Matthieu Legendre et al.   Virology Journal

Another Really, Really Big Virus

(2011) James L. Van Etten   Viruses-Basel

DNA Viruses: The Really Big Ones (Giruses)

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

Development of PCR assays to detect iridovirus infections among captive and wild populations of Missouri River sturgeon

(2010) T Kurobe et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

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

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for the functional annotation of proteins

(2010) A. Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

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

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Revised Mimivirus major capsid protein sequence reveals intron-containing gene structure and extra domain

(2009) Saïd Azza et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Ranavirus phylogeny and differentiation based on major capsid protein, DNA polymerase and neurofilament triplet H1-like protein genes

(2009) R Holopainen et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

From small hosts come big viruses: the complete genome of a secondOstreococcus taurivirus, OtV-1

(2009) Karen D. Weynberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Lateral gene transfer, lineage-specific gene expansion and the evolution of Nucleo Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses

(2009) Jonathan Filée   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

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

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

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Phylogenetic Analysis of Members of the Phycodnaviridae Virus Family, Using Amplified Fragments of the Major Capsid Protein Gene

(2008) J. B. Larsen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

(2008) Bernard La Scola et al.   NATURE

Genomic analysis of the smallest giant virus — Feldmannia sp. virus 158

(2008) Declan C. Schroeder et al.   VIROLOGY

Taxonomic distribution of large DNA viruses in the sea

(2008) Adam Monier et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY