1.
Virus Genes
; 55(5): 574-591, 2019 Oct.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31290063
RESUMEN
The discovery of giant viruses has revolutionised the knowledge on viruses and transformed the idea of three domains of life. Here, we discuss the known protozoal giant viruses and their potential to infect also humans and animals.
Asunto(s)
Amoeba/virología , Virus Gigantes/crecimiento & desarrollo , Estramenopilos/virología , Virosis/veterinaria , Virosis/virología , Animales , Virus Gigantes/patogenicidad , Humanos
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Acta Biochim Pol
; 65(4): 487-496, 2018 Oct 23.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30444087
RESUMEN
Five years after being discovered in 2003, some giant viruses were demonstrated to play a role of the hosts for virophages, their parasites, setting out a novel and yet unknown regulatory mechanism of the giant viruses presence in an aqueous. So far, 20 virophages have been registered and 13 of them have been described as a metagenomic material, which indirectly impacts the number of single- and multi-cell organisms, the environment where giant viruses replicate.