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M. Gaia, U. Guyet, H.-J. Ruscheweyh, A. M. Eren, S. Sunagawa, E. V. Koonin, M. Krupovic, T. O. Delmont
The paper discovers a new group of DNA viruses, egoviruses, found in the digestive systems of humans and animals, closely related to poxviruses and suggesting an evolutionary link between gut-infecting viruses and animal pathogens.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology
S. Kijima, H. Hikida, T. O. Delmont, M. Gaia, H. Ogata
The paper analyzes viral aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) in nucleocytoviruses to determine their evolutionary origins and find that some predate the last common eukaryotic ancestor.
bioRxiv · Dec 10, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology
J. Wu, L. Meng, M. Gaia, H. Hikida, Y. Okazaki, H. Endo, H. Ogata
The paper investigates viral horizontal gene transfer (vHGT) among nucleocytoviruses and finds it accounts for 28% to 42% of gene gain events in each viral order.
bioRxiv · Sep 26, 2023Evolutionary Biology
L. Meng, T. O. Delmont, M. Gaia, E. Pelletier, A. Fernandez-Guerra, S. Chaffron, R. Y. Neches, J. Wu, H. Kaneko, H. Endo, H. Ogata
This study investigates how giant viruses adapt to polar ocean environments by analyzing their biogeography and functional genes, finding that their adaptation is independent of host adaptation.
bioRxiv · Feb 9, 2023Microbiology
J. Guglielmini, M. Gaia, V. Da Cunha, A. Criscuolo, M. Krupovic, P. Forterre
This study investigates the origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases by analyzing phylogenetic relationships between viral and cellular homologs, finding that they likely originated from Nucleocytoviricota viruses.
bioRxiv · Apr 12, 2022Evolutionary Biology
M. Gaia, L. Meng, E. Pelletier, P. Forterre, C. Vanni, A. Fernendez-Guerra, O. Jaillon, P. Wincker, H. Ogata, M. Krupovic, T. O. Delmont
The paper identifies plankton-infecting herpesvirus relatives in marine environments, revealing a new viral phylum with evolutionary links to both herpesviruses and giant viruses.
bioRxiv · Dec 27, 2021Evolutionary Biology
S. Kijima, T. O. Delmont, U. Miyazaki, M. Gaia, H. Endo, H. Ogata
The paper discovers myosin genes in NCLDVs, suggests their role in viral transport, and identifies multiple horizontal transfers of these genes between viruses and eukaryotes.
bioRxiv · Mar 14, 2021Microbiology
T. O. Delmont, M. Gaia, D. D. Hinsinger, P. Fremont, C. Vanni, A. Fernandez Guerra, A. M. Eren, A. Kourlaiev, L. d'Agata, Q. Clayssen, E. Villar, K. Labadie, C. Cruaud, J. Poulain, C. Da Silva, , O. Jaillon
The paper uses Tara Oceans metagenomic data to reconstruct and analyze eukaryotic genomes, revealing functional convergence among distantly related plankton lineages.
bioRxiv · Oct 15, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology
H. Kaneko, R. Blanc-Mathieu, H. Endo, S. Chaffron, T. O. Delmont, M. Gaia, N. Henry, R. Hernandez Velazquez, C. H. Nguyen, H. Mamitsuka, P. Forterre, O. Jaillon, C. de Vargas, M. B. Sullivan, C. A. Suttle, , H. Ogata
This study links viral community composition to carbon export efficiency in the global ocean, finding that viral marker genes explain 67% of variation in CEE.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2020Ecology
A. C. Woo, M. Gaia, J. Guglielmini, V. Da Cunha, P. Forterre
The paper analyzes the evolutionary history of PRD1-adenovirus lineage viruses, finding their phylogenetic tree incongruent with the cellular tree of life.
bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology
J. Guglielmini, A. Woo, M. Krupovic, P. Forterre, M. Gaia
This study presents phylogenetic trees of NCLDVs, revealing two superclades and suggesting that NCLDV core genes were transferred to proto-eukaryotes before modern eukaryotes emerged.
bioRxiv · Oct 29, 2018Evolutionary Biology