Bernard La Scola

The paper describes Sissivirus, a giant virus with a 4-megabase genome and a large repeatome, identifying repeat accumulation as a key driver of its genome expansion.

This paper identifies and functionally characterizes vitamin K-based redox modules in giant viruses that modify host membrane lipids during infection.

This study analyzed HCoV-OC43 genomes from southern France between 2017-2022, revealing evolutionary dynamics and amino acid substitutions across three genotypes.

The paper shows that a giant virus triggers polinton-like viruses in green algae, revealing an inducible antiviral defense system.

The paper describes the implementation of a multiplex PCR system combined with next-generation sequencing to analyze HCoV-229E genomes from Southern France, identifying a new lineage and sublineages.