Novel Cell-Virus-Virophage Tripartite Infection Systems Discovered in the Freshwater Lake Dishui Lake in Shanghai, China

Abstract excerpt

Virophages are small parasitizing viruses of large/giant viruses. To our knowledge, the few isolated virophages all parasitize giant protozoan viruses ( Mimiviridae ) for propagation and form a tripartite infection system with hosts, here named the cell-virus-virophage (CVv) system. However, the CVv system remains largely unknown in environmental metagenomic data sets. In this study, we systematically...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
• Share to Plant Virus Research Studies
• Share to Polyomavirus and related diseases