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SHARED GENE FAMILY. "This network also includes at least three distinct groups of viruses, the NCLDV, adenoviruses and an assemblage of bacteriophages." http://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-10-158 View in LinkedIn

SHARED JUMPING GENES. "The evolutionary relationship between virophages, polintons and transpovirons is best represented as a network in which the edges correspond to shared genes." http://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-10-158 View in LinkedIn

NO DIVIDE. "The discovery of giant viruses infecting unicellular eukaryotes, in particular amoeba, eliminated the distinction between viruses and cellular life forms in terms of size and genomic complexity." https://lnkd.in/eMRxCdg View in LinkedIn

DEEP UNKNOWN. "Viral communities influence microbial populations and human health, but their study is hampered by a large degree of uncharacterized sequence diversity. It has been estimated that 0.0002% of the global viral gene pool has been sequenced and deep sequencing of viruses purified from the environment typically yields a large majority of unidentified sequences." https://lnkd.in/e8TmVZf View in LinkedIn

BIG FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS. "Much like bacteria, the giant viruses (sometimes called giruses) possess their own parasites and their own mobilomes, i.e. communities of associated mobile genetic elements." http://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-10-158 View in LinkedIn

MOBILOMES. "Giant viruses have been shown to possess their own mobilomes that include virophages, small viruses that parasitize on giant viruses of the Mimiviridae family, and transpovirons, distinct linear plasmids." Not mobile homes. https://lnkd.in/eEM2HAP View in LinkedIn

DIVERSE FREE CODE. "Recent advances of genomics and metagenomics reveal remarkable diversity of viruses and other selfish genetic elements." https://lnkd.in/eEM2HAP View in LinkedIn

"A TRANSPOVIRON is a mobile genetic element found in the genomes of giant DNA viruses." https://lnkd.in/ef7GiPm View in LinkedIn

MIMIVIRUSES BREAK DOGMAS. "The surprise in the mimivirus genome, was not only its record 1.2-Mb size, but the nature of its gene content itself. Lacking ribosomes, viruses are supposed to entirely hand over the synthesis of their own proteins to their host's machinery. Already weaken by the discovery of numerous tRNA in some phycodnavirus, this dogma is now further demolished by the finding of virus-encoded translation enzymes and factors." https://lnkd.in/evsF7_x View in LinkedIn

GIANT VIRUSES. "The prevalent view is that viruses were lucky combinations of self-replicating molecules - not living organisms - and per se not noble enough to deserve a genealogy. The identification of many large DNA viruses exhibiting more than two hundred, then three hundred genes over the last 14 years, was apparently not sufficient to change this view, outside of a small circle of specialists." https://lnkd.in/evsF7_x View in LinkedIn