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- Virophages rely on the viral replication factory of the co-infecting giant virus for their own replication. One of the characteristics of virophages is...
- acted as a parasite of that virus. In analogy, it was called a virophage. Sputnik virophages were found infecting giant viruses of Mimiviridae group A. However...
- viruses Family LavidaviridaeVirophages Sputnik virophage Zamilon virophage Mavirus virophage Organic Lake virophage Single-stranded DNA satellite viruses...
- in protist genomes. Similar to virophages, PgVV requires a helper virus to replicate. Phaeocystis globosa virus virophage has a parasitic relationship with...
- Zamilon is one of three virophages to have been isolated physically, the others being Sputnik and Mavirus; several other virophage DNAs have been discovered...
- largely discounted. Virophages are small, double-stranded DNA viruses that rely on the co-infection of giant viruses. Virophages rely on the viral replication...
- strain of Acanthamoeba castellanii mimivirus, virophages are an element of the virus mobilome. Virophages are viruses that replicate only when host cells...
- Duponchel, S. and Fischer, M.G. (2019) "Viva lavidaviruses! Five features of virophages that parasitize giant DNA viruses". PLoS pathogens, 15(3). doi:10.1371/journal...
- Duponchel, S. and Fischer, M.G. (2019) "Viva lavidaviruses! Five features of virophages that parasitize giant DNA viruses". PLoS pathogens, 15(3). doi:10.1371/journal...
- Organic Lake virophage (OLV) is a double-stranded DNA virophage (a virus that requires the presence of another virus to replicate itself and in so doing...