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1. Viruses and cells intertwined since the dawn of evolution

   Many attempts have been made to define nature of viruses and to uncover their origin. Our aim within this work was to show that there are different...

   Julia Durzyńska, Anna Goździcka-Józefiak in Virology Journal

   Article Open access 16 October 2015
   

2. A classification system for virophages and satellite viruses

   Satellite viruses encode structural proteins required for the formation of infectious particles but depend on helper viruses for completing their...

   Mart Krupovic, Jens H. Kuhn, Matthias G. Fischer in Archives of Virology

   Article 07 October 2015
   

3. A Decade of Giant Virus Genomics: Surprising Discoveries Opening New Questions

   During the last decade, viral studies have investigated truly large viruses for the first time in the history of biology. Those giants of viruses...

   Hiroyuki Ogata, Masaharu Takemura in Global Virology I - Identifying and Investigating Viral Diseases

   Chapter 2015
   

4. Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon

   Background

   The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last...

   Rafael K Campos, Paulo V Boratto, ... Jônatas S Abrahão in Virology Journal

   Article Open access 14 May 2014
   

5. Comparative metagenomic analyses reveal viral-induced shifts of host metabolism towards nucleotide biosynthesis

   Background

   Viral genomes often contain metabolic genes that were acquired from host genomes (auxiliary genes). It is assumed that these genes are...

   Hagay Enav, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Oded Béjà in Microbiome

   Article Open access 26 March 2014
   

6. Tetraspanins as Facilitators of Viral and Cellular Information Transfer

   Cells that are infected by a virus can infect other cells by passing on the viral genome. Such transfer of viral genetic information can occur by...

   Markus Thali in Tetraspanins

   Chapter 2013
   

7. Combined Approaches to Study Virus Structures

   A virus particle must work as a safe box for protecting its genome, but at the same time it has to undergo dramatic conformational changes in order...

   Daniel Badia-Martinez, Hanna M. Oksanen, ... Nicola G. A. Abrescia in Structure and Physics of Viruses

   Chapter 2013
   

8. Hidden evolutionary complexity of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses of eukaryotes

   Background

   The Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) constitute an apparently monophyletic group that consists of at least 6 families of...

   Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin in Virology Journal

   Article Open access 14 August 2012
   

9. A new proposed taxon for double-stranded DNA viruses, the order “Ligamenvirales”

   Linear viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes are classified into two families, Lipothrixviridae and Rudiviridae . The members of these two...

   David Prangishvili, Mart Krupovic in Archives of Virology

   Article 22 January 2012
   

10. Introduction and Historical Perspective

    The discoveries of DNA supercoiling and DNA topoisomerases have been two of the most important breakthroughs in biology in the last century. Negative...

    Patrick Forterre in DNA Topoisomerases and Cancer

    Chapter 2012
    

11. A novel adenovirus of Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

    Adenoviruses (AdV) broadly infect vertebrate hosts including a variety of primates. We identified a novel AdV in the feces of captive gorillas by...

    Diana Wevers, Fabian H Leendertz, ... Bernhard Ehlers in Virology Journal

    Article Open access 05 November 2010
    

12. Analysis of a new strain of Euphorbia mosaic virus with distinct replication specificity unveils a lineage of begomoviruses with short Rep sequences in the DNA-B intergenic region

    Background

    Euphorbia mosaic virus (EuMV) is a member of the SLCV clade, a lineage of New World begomoviruses that display distinctive features in...

    Josefat Gregorio-Jorge, Artemiza Bernal-Alcocer, ... Gerardo R Argüello-Astorga in Virology Journal

    Article Open access 19 October 2010
    

13. Report of the 29th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

    M.A. Mayo in Archives of Virology

    Article 01 July 2001