82 citations
3 papers
q-bio.PE2006★ 1 cited
Virus evolution : the emergence of new ideas (and re-emergence of old ones)
Jean-Michel Claverie
Reputed intractable, the question of the origin of viruses has long been neglected. In the modern literature 'Virus evolution' has come to refer to study more akin to population ge…
q-bio.PE2005
Giant viruses in the oceans : the 4th Algal Virus Workshop
Jean-Michel Claverie
Giant double-stranded DNA viruses (such as record breaking Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus), with particle sizes of 0.2 to 0.6 micron, genomes of 300 kbp to 1.200 kbp, and commens…
q-bio.GN2005★ 82 cited
Mimivirus Gene Promoters Exhibit an Unprecedented Conservation among all Eukaryotes
Karsten Suhre, Stéphane Audic, Jean-Michel Claverie
The initial analysis of the recently sequenced genome of Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus, the largest known double-stranded DNA virus, predicted a proteome of size and complexity…