The origins of giant viruses, virophages and their relatives in host genomes

Giant viruses have revealed a number of surprises that challenge conventions on what constitutes a virus. The Samba virus newly isolated in Brazil expands the known distribution of giant mimiviruses to a near-global scale. These viruses, together with the transposon-related virophages that infect th...

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Autores principales: Katzourakis, Aris, Aswad, Amr
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0051-y
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description Giant viruses have revealed a number of surprises that challenge conventions on what constitutes a virus. The Samba virus newly isolated in Brazil expands the known distribution of giant mimiviruses to a near-global scale. These viruses, together with the transposon-related virophages that infect them, pose a number of questions about their evolutionary origins that need to be considered in the light of the complex entanglement between host, virus and virophage genomes. See research article: http://www.virologyj.com/content/11/1/95.
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spelling pubmed-40963852014-07-15 The origins of giant viruses, virophages and their relatives in host genomes Katzourakis, Aris Aswad, Amr BMC Biol Commentary Giant viruses have revealed a number of surprises that challenge conventions on what constitutes a virus. The Samba virus newly isolated in Brazil expands the known distribution of giant mimiviruses to a near-global scale. These viruses, together with the transposon-related virophages that infect them, pose a number of questions about their evolutionary origins that need to be considered in the light of the complex entanglement between host, virus and virophage genomes. See research article: http://www.virologyj.com/content/11/1/95. BioMed Central 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4096385/ /pubmed/25184667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0051-y Text en Copyright © 2014 Katzourakis and Aswad; licensee BioMed Central http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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