"Giant Viruses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
DNA viruses that have genomes up to several megabases in length and infect primarily single-celled EUKARYOTES.
| Descriptor ID |
D000072139
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.280.356
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| Concept/Terms |
Giant Viruses- Giant Viruses
- Giant Virus
- Virus, Giant
- Viruses, Giant
- Giruses
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Giant Viruses" by people in Profiles.
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Beyond coronavirus: the virus discoveries transforming biology. Nature. 2021 07; 595(7865):22-25.
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Virophages of Giant Viruses: An Update at Eleven. Viruses. 2019 08 08; 11(8).
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Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Feb; 25(2):147-154.
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Metagenomic binning reconstruction coupled with automatic pipeline annotation and giant viruses: A potential source of mistake in annotations. Virus Res. 2018 08 15; 255:36-38.
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Morphologic and Genomic Analyses of New Isolates Reveal a Second Lineage of Cedratviruses. J Virol. 2018 07 01; 92(13).
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Deciphering the genomes of 16 Acanthamoeba species does not provide evidence of integration of known giant virus-associated mobile genetic elements. Virus Res. 2018 06 02; 251:14-16.
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Deciphering viral presences: two novel partial giant viruses detected in marine metagenome and in a mine drainage metagenome. Virol J. 2018 04 10; 15(1):66.
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Many More Microbes in Humans: Enlarging the Microbiome Repertoire. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Aug 15; 65(suppl_1):S20-S29.
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Cedratvirus lausannensis - digging into Pithoviridae diversity. Environ Microbiol. 2017 10; 19(10):4022-4034.
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Giant Viruses of Amoebae: A Journey Through Innovative Research and Paradigm Changes. Annu Rev Virol. 2017 09 29; 4(1):61-85.