The discovery of giant viruses, with capsids as large as some bacteria, megabase-range
genomes and a variety of traits typically found only in cellular organisms, was one of the …

The accidental discovery of the giant virus of amoeba—Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus
(APMV; more commonly known as mimivirus)—in 2003 changed the field of virology …

Abstract The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB
PDB), the US data center for the global PDB archive and a founding member of the …

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a giant and complex DNA virus that causes a highly
contagious and often lethal swine disease for which no vaccine is available. Using an …

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large double-stranded DNA virus with an icosahedral
multilayered structure. ASFV causes a lethal swine hemorrhagic disease and is currently …

Horizontal gene transfer, the movement of genetic material between species, has been
reported across all major eukaryotic lineages. However, the underlying mechanisms of …

Recent discoveries of new large DNA viruses reveal high diversity in their morphologies,
genetic repertoires, and replication strategies. Here, we report the novel features of …

Giant and large eukaryotic double-stranded DNA viruses from the Nucleo-Cytoplasmic
Large DNA Virus (NCLDV) assemblage represent a remarkably diverse and potentially …

Dear Editor, African swine fever (ASF) caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV)
infection is a highly contagious and lethal disease of domestic pigs. Recent spread of the …

Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV), one of the nucleocytoviricota viruses (NCVs), is a
highly pathogenic iridovirid. SGIV infection results in massive economic losses to the …