...Yeh Fong Tan; Chai Ying Lim; Chun Wie Chong; Patricia Kim Chooi Lim; Ivan Kok Seng Yap; Pooi Pooi Leong; Kenny Voon Background: The giant amoebal viruses of Mimivirus and Marseillevirus are large DNA viruses and have been documented in water, soil, and sewage samples. The trend of discovering...

...Philippe Colson; Bernard La Scola; Didier Raoult Giant viruses infecting phagocytic protists are composed of mimiviruses, the record holders of particle and genome size amongst viruses, and marseilleviruses. Since the discovery in 2003 at our laboratory of the first of these giant viruses...

... by blind subculture. No sample was positive by PCR, but 15 (15.6%) were positive by culture; all were Mimiviridae and included 13 from lineage A, 1 from lineage B (Cassis49) and 1 from lineage C (Luminy43). Table 2 Main features of Mimiviruses and Marseilleviruses isolated in our laboratory...

... with Marseillevirus and Lausannevirus, including 260 and 300 bona fide orthologous genes (involved in reciprocal best hits with a sequence coverage >70%), respectively. Of the analyzed marseilleviruses, Tunisvirus appeared to be the most closely related to Insectomime. Insectomime shares 446 orthologs...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mimiviruses and marseilleviruses have been linked to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, a monophyletic group of large DNA viruses that infect animals and unicellular eukaryotes...

... to marseilleviruses, two new members of this group, named Senegalvirus and Giant Blood Marseillevirus, have been isolated from feces and blood collected from a young man living in rural Senegal and a blood donor in Marseille, respectively [ 39,42,43 ]. Both individuals had no clinical symptom, which suggests...

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... conditions and selected in a specific niche. 15 6 2010 Amoeba Giant viruses Marseillevirus Mimiviruses Phagocytic protist Rhizome of life Virophage © 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel 2010 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...

... Marseillevirus Mimivirus Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus ORFan Intervirology 2010;53:310 320 DOI: 10.1159/000312916 Published online: June 15, 2010 Classification and Determination of Possible Origins of ORFans through Analysis of Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses Mickaël Boyer a Gregory Gimenez...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Giant virus Marseillevirus Mimivirus Rhizome Virophage Virus definition 15 6 2010 Editorial Intervirology 2010;53:251 253 DOI: 10.1159/000312909 Published online: June...

...Philippe Colson; Didier Raoult Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus , Marseillevirus, and Sputnik , a virophage, are intra-amoebal viruses that have been isolated from water collected in cooling towers. They have provided fascinating data and have raised exciting questions about viruses definition...