Large DNA viruses in early diverging fungal genomes are relics of past and present infections

J Myers, F Schulz, S Rahimlou, K Amses, DR Simmons… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Giant viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota have captured researchers' attention due to
their increasingly recognized impacts on eukaryotic genome evolution. Their origins are …

[HTML][HTML] A phylogenomic framework for charting the diversity and evolution of giant viruses

FO Aylward, M Moniruzzaman, AD Ha, EV Koonin - PLoS Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Large DNA viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota have recently emerged as important
members of ecosystems around the globe that challenge traditional views of viral …

Molecular fossils reveal ancient associations of dsDNA viruses with several phyla of fungi

Z Gong, Y Zhang, GZ Han - Virus Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about the infections of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses in fungi. Here,
we use a paleovirological method to systematically identify the footprints of past dsDNA virus …

Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics

F Schulz, C Abergel, T Woyke - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of giant viruses, with capsids as large as some bacteria, megabase-range
genomes and a variety of traits typically found only in cellular organisms, was one of the …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery of a class of giant virus relatives displaying unusual functional traits and prevalent within plankton: the mirusviricetes

M Gaïa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni… - bioRxiv, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Large and giant DNA viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota have a profound influence on
the ecology and evolution of planktonic eukaryotes. Recently, various Nucleocytoviricota …

Plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses clarify the evolutionary trajectory of giant viruses

M Gaïa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Large and giant DNA viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota have a profound influence on
the ecology and evolution of planktonic eukaryotes. Recently, various Nucleocytoviricota …

Resolving ancient gene transfers clarifies the early co-evolution of eukaryotes and giant viruses

S Karki, FO Aylward - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Members of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota, also called “giant viruses” due to their large
physical dimensions and genome lengths, are a diverse group of dsDNA viruses that infect a …

[HTML][HTML] Homing in on the rare virosphere reveals the native host of giant viruses

A Fromm, G Hevroni, F Vincent, D Schatz… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Giant viruses (phylum Nucleocytoviricota) are globally distributed in aquatic ecosystems 1,
2. They play major roles as evolutionary drivers of eukaryotic plankton 3 and regulators of …

[PDF][PDF] Survey of early-diverging lineages of fungi reveals abundant and diverse mycoviruses. mBio 11: e02027-20

JM Myers, AE Bonds, RA Clemons, NA Thapa… - 2020 - public.websites.umich.edu
Mycoviruses are widespread and purportedly common throughout the fungal kingdom,
although most are known from hosts in the two most recently diverged phyla, Ascomycota …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple evolutionary origins of giant viruses

EV Koonin, N Yutin - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) are a monophyletic group of diverse
eukaryotic viruses that reproduce primarily in the cytoplasm of the infected cells and include …