Aquatic viruses are naturally present in the aquatic environment and the number of viruses
is staggering. Various multicellular organisms in aquatic ecosystems may be infected, cross …

Self-synthesizing transposons are the largest known transposable elements that encode
their own DNA polymerases (DNAP). The Polinton/Maverick family of self-synthesizing …

Satellite viruses encode structural proteins required for the formation of infectious particles
but depend on helper viruses for completing their replication cycles. Because of this unique …

Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites and thus cannot replicate outside a living cell.
Whereas a susceptible and permissive host cell is sufficient for most viruses to produce …

The last decade has been marked by two eminent discoveries that have changed our
perception of the virology field: The discovery of giant viruses and a distinct new class of …

Highlights•Members of several new clades of giant viruses have been isolated in the past
few years.•Most of these viruses were isolated on amoebae.•Other protists are likely to host …

Viruses of Microorganisms Page 1 Caister Academic Press Viruses of Microorganisms https://doi.org/10.21775/9781910190852
Edited by Paul Hyman Department of Biology and Toxicology Ashland University Ashland …