Mimivirus

Raoult D, Audic S, Robert C, Abergel C, Renesto P, Ogata H, La Scola B,Suzan M, Claverie JM.
The 1.2-Mb Genome Sequence of Mimivirus.
Science 306: 1344-1350
PMID: 15486256.

La Scola B, Audic S, Robert C, Jungang L, de Lamballerie X, Drancourt M,Birtles R, Claverie JM, Raoult D.
A giant virus in amoebae.
Science. 2003 Mar 28;299(5615): 2033.
PMID: 12663918.

General

Iyer LM, Aravind L, Koonin EV.
Common origin of four diverse families of large eukaryotic DNA viruses.
J Virol. 2001 Dec;75(23):11720-34.
PMID: 11689653. Free PDF

Pennisi E.
Evolutionary biology. The birth of the nucleus.
Science. 2004 Aug 6;305(5685):766-8.
PMID: 15297641

Krisch HM.
The view from Les Treilles on the origins, evolution and diversity of viruses.
Res Microbiol. 2003 May;154(4):227-9.
PMID: 12901367

Lehman N.
A case for the extreme antiquity of recombination.
J Mol Evol. 2003 Jun;56(6):770-7. Review.
PMID: 12911039

Turnbull M, Webb B.
Perspectives on polydnavirus origins and evolution.
Adv Virus Res. 2002;58:203-54. Review.
PMID: 12205780

Breitbart M, Salamon P, Andresen B, Mahaffy JM, Segall AM, Mead D, Azam F,Rohwer F.
Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Oct 29;99(22):14250-5.
PMID: 12384570

Stasiak K, Renault S, Demattei MV, Bigot Y, Federici BA.
Evidence for the evolution of ascoviruses from iridoviruses.
J Gen Virol. 2003 Nov;84(Pt 11):2999-3009.
PMID: 14573805

Peng X, Blum H, She Q, Mallok S, Brugger K, Garrett RA, Zillig W,Prangishvili D.
Sequences and replication of genomes of the archaeal rudiviruses SIRV1 and SIRV2: relationships to the archaeal lipothrixvirus SIFV and some eukaryal viruses.
Virology. 2001 Dec 20;291(2):226-34.
PMID: 11878892

Bell PJ.
Viral eukaryogenesis: was the ancestor of the nucleus a complex DNA virus?
J Mol Evol. 2001 Sep;53(3):251-6.
PMID: 11523012

Takemura M.
Poxviruses and the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus.
J Mol Evol. 2001 May;52(5):419-25.
PMID: 11443345

Mindell DP, Villarreal LP.
Don't forget about viruses.
Science. 2003 Dec 5;302(5651):1677.
PMID: 14657474

Villarreal LP, DeFilippis VR.
A hypothesis for DNA viruses as the origin of eukaryotic replication proteins.
J Virol. 2000 Aug;74(15):7079-84.
PMID: 10888648 Free PDF

Tidona CA, Darai G.
Iridovirus homologues of cellular genes--implications for the molecular
evolution of large DNA viruses.
Virus Genes. 2000;21(1-2):77-81. Review.
PMID: 11022791

Woese C.
The universal ancestor.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Jun 9;95(12):6854-9.
PMID: 9618502

Ibba M, Celic I, Curnow A, Kim H, Pelaschier J, Tumbula D, Vothknecht U, Woese C, Soll D.
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis in Archaea.
Nucleic Acids Symp Ser. 1997(37):305-6.
PMID: 9586121

Kyrpides NC, Woese CR.
Archaeal translation initiation revisited: the initiation factor 2 and eukaryotic initiation factor 2B alpha-beta-delta subunit families.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Mar 31;95(7):3726-30.
PMID: 9520434

Other large DNA viruses

Phycodnaviruses

Van Etten JL, Graves MV, Muller DG, Boland W, Delaroque N.
Phycodnaviridae--large DNA algal viruses.
Arch Virol. 2002 Aug;147(8):1479-516. Review.
PMID: 12181671

Van Etten JL.
Unusual life style of giant chlorella viruses.
Annu Rev Genet. 2003;37:153-95. Review.
PMID: 14616059

Simpson AA, Nandhagopal N, Van Etten JL, Rossmann MG.
Structural analyses of Phycodnaviridae and Iridoviridae.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2003 Dec;59(Pt 12):2053-9. Review.
PMID: 14646061

Markine-Goriaynoff N, Gillet L, Van Etten JL, Korres H, Verma N, Vanderplasschen A.
Glycosyltransferases encoded by viruses.
J Gen Virol. 2004 Oct;85(Pt 10):2741-54. Review.
PMID: 15448335

Delaroque N, Boland W, Muller DG, Knippers R.
Comparisons of two large phaeoviral genomes and evolutionary implications.
J Mol Evol. 2003 Dec;57(6):613-22.
PMID: 14745530

Delaroque N, Muller DG, Bothe G, Pohl T, Knippers R, Boland W.
The complete DNA sequence of the Ectocarpus siliculosus Virus EsV-1 genome.
Virology. 2001 Aug 15;287(1):112-32.
PMID: 11504547

Van Etten JL, Meints RH.
Giant viruses infecting algae.
Annu Rev Microbiol. 1999;53:447-94. Review.
PMID: 10547698

Nishida K, Kawasaki T, Fujie M, Usami S, Yamada T.
Aminoacylation of tRNAs encoded by Chlorella virus CVK2.
Virology. 1999 Oct 10;263(1):220-9.
PMID: 10544096

Lee AM, Ivey RG, Henry EC, Meints RH.
Characterization of a repetitive DNA element in a brown algal virus.
Virology. 1995 Oct 1;212(2):474-80.
PMID: 7571417

Yamada T, Fukuda T, Tamura K, Furukawa S, Songsri P.
Expression of the gene encoding a translational elongation factor 3 homolog of Chlorella virus CVK2.
Virology. 1993 Dec;197(2):742-50.
PMID: 8249297

Iridoviruses

Song WJ, Qin QW, Qiu J, Huang CH, Wang F, Hew CL.
Functional genomics analysis of Singapore grouper iridovirus: complete sequence determination and proteomic analysis.
J Virol. 2004 Nov;78(22):12576-90.
PMID: 15507645 Free PDF

Do JW, Moon CH, Kim HJ, Ko MS, Kim SB, Son JH, Kim JS, An EJ, Kim MK, Lee SK, Han MS, Cha SJ, Park MS, Park MA, Kim YC, Kim JW, Park JW.
Complete genomic DNA sequence of rock bream iridovirus.
Virology. 2004 Aug 1;325(2):351-63.
PMID: 15246274

Wang JW, Deng RQ, Wang XZ, Huang YS, Xing K, Feng JH, He JG, Long QX.
Cladistic analysis of iridoviruses based on protein and DNA sequences.
Arch Virol. 2003 Nov;148(11):2181-94.
PMID: 14579177

He JG, L L, Deng M, He HH, Weng SP, Wang XH, Zhou SY, Long QX, Wang XZ, Chan SM.
Sequence analysis of iridoviruses based on protein and DNA sequences.
Arch Virol. 2003 Nov;148(11):2181-94.
PMID: 14579177

He JG, L L, Deng M, He HH, Weng SP, Wang XH, Zhou SY, Long QX, Wang XZ, Chan SM.
Sequence analysis of the complete genome of an iridovirus isolated from the tiger frog.
Virology. 2002 Jan 20;292(2):185-97.
PMID: 11878922

Essbauer S, Bremont M, Ahne W.
Comparison of the eIF-2alpha homologous proteins of seven ranaviruses (Iridoviridae).
Virus Genes. 2001 Dec;23(3):347-59.
PMID: 11778703

Tidona CA, Darai G.
The complete DNA sequence of lymphocystis disease virus.
Virology. 1997 Apr 14;230(2):207-16.
PMID: 9143276

Asfarviridae

Stasiak K, Renault S, Demattei MV, Bigot Y, Federici BA.
Evidence for the evolution of ascoviruses from iridoviruses.
J Gen Virol. 2003 Nov;84(Pt 11):2999-3009.
PMID: 14573805

Yanez RJ, Rodriguez JM, Nogal ML, Yuste L, Enriquez C, Rodriguez JF, Vinuela E.
Analysis of the complete nucleotide sequence of African swine fever virus.
Virology. 1995 Apr 1;208(1):249-78.
PMID: 11831707

Heath CM, Windsor M, Wileman T.
Aggresomes resemble sites specialized for virus assembly.
J Cell Biol. 2001 Apr 30;153(3):449-55.
PMID: 11331297

Blum H, Zillig W, Mallok S, Domdey H, Prangishvili D.
The genome of the archaeal virus SIRV1 has features in common with genomes of eukaryal viruses.
Virology. 2001 Mar 1;281(1):6-9.
PMID: 11222090

Garcia-Escudero R, Vinuela E.
Structure of African swine fever virus late promoters: requirement of a TATA sequence at the initiation region.
J Virol. 2000 Sep;74(17):8176-82.
PMID: 10933729 Free PDF

Oliveros M, Garcia-Escudero R, Alejo A, Vinuela E, Salas ML, Salas J.
African swine fever virus dUTPase is a highly specific enzyme required for efficient replication in swine macrophages.
J Virol. 1999 Nov;73(11):8934-43.
PMID: 10515998 Free PDF

Pox viruses

Tulman ER, Afonso CL, Lu Z, Zsak L, Kutish GF, Rock DL.
The genome of canarypox virus.
J Virol. 2004 Jan;78(1):353-66.
PMID: 14671117 Free PDF

Li Y, Altman S.
In search of RNase P RNA from microbial genomes.
RNA. 2004 Oct;10(10):1533-40. Epub 2004 Aug 30.
PMID: 15337843

McLysaght A, Baldi PF, Gaut BS.
Extensive gene gain associated with adaptive evolution of poxviruses.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Dec 23;100(26):15655-60. Epub 2003 Dec 05.
PMID: 14660798

Brunetti CR, Amano H, Ueda Y, Qin J, Miyamura T, Suzuki T, Li X, Barrett JW, McFadden G.
Complete genomic sequence and comparative analysis of the tumorigenic poxvirus Yaba monkey tumor virus.
J Virol. 2003 Dec;77(24):13335-47.
PMID: 14645589 Free PDF

Ehlers A, Osborne J, Slack S, Roper RL, Upton C.
Poxvirus Orthologous Clusters (POCs).
Bioinformatics. 2002 Nov;18(11):1544-5.
PMID: 12424130

Bawden AL, Glassberg KJ, Diggans J, Shaw R, Farmerie W, Moyer RW.
Complete genomic sequence of the Amsacta moorei entomopoxvirus: analysis and comparison with other poxviruses.
Virology. 2000 Aug 15;274(1):120-39.
PMID: 10936094

Upton C.
Screening predicted coding regions in poxvirus genomes.
Virus Genes. 2000;20(2):159-64.
PMID: 10872878

Huynen MA, van Nimwegen E.
The frequency distribution of gene family sizes in complete genomes.
Mol Biol Evol. 1998 May;15(5):583-9.
PMID: 9580988

Massung RF, Liu LI, Qi J, Knight JC, Yuran TE, Kerlavage AR, Parsons JM, Venter JC, Esposito JJ.
Analysis of the complete genome of smallpox variola major virus strain Bangladesh-1975.
Virology. 1994 Jun;201(2):215-40.
PMID: 8184534