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I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses.
Trends Genet. 2007 Jan; 23(1):10-5.TG

Abstract

Giant viruses are nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) that infect algae (phycodnaviruses) and amoebae (Mimivirus). We report an unexpected abundance in these giant viruses of islands of bacterial-type genes, including apparently intact prokaryotic mobile genetic elements, and hypothesize that NCLDV genomes undergo successive accretions of bacterial genes. The viruses could acquire bacterial genes within their bacteria-feeding eukaryotic hosts, and we suggest that such acquisition is driven by the intimate coupling of recombination and replication in NCLDVs.

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Filée J
Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires, CNRS 118, Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex, France. jonathan.filee@ibcg.biotoul.fr
Siguier P
No affiliation info available
Chandler M
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MeSH

Chromosome MappingComputational BiologyDNA VirusesGene Transfer, HorizontalGenes, BacterialGenome, ViralInterspersed Repetitive SequencesModels, Genetic

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

17109990

Citation

Filée, Jonathan, et al. "I Am what I Eat and I Eat what I Am: Acquisition of Bacterial Genes By Giant Viruses." Trends in Genetics : TIG, vol. 23, no. 1, 2007, pp. 10-5.
Filée J, Siguier P, Chandler M. I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses. Trends Genet. 2007;23(1):10-5.
Filée, J., Siguier, P., & Chandler, M. (2007). I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses. Trends in Genetics : TIG, 23(1), 10-5.
Filée J, Siguier P, Chandler M. I Am what I Eat and I Eat what I Am: Acquisition of Bacterial Genes By Giant Viruses. Trends Genet. 2007;23(1):10-5. PubMed PMID: 17109990.
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