Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Viruses: Five Lessons Learned about Large Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes and the Opportunities They Create

Steven W Wilhelm; Samantha R Coy; Eric R Gann; Mohammad Moniruzzaman; Joshua M A Stough

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005752

Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Viruses: Five Lessons Learned about Large Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes and the Opportunities They Create

PLoS Pathog. 2016 Aug 25;12(8):e1005752. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005752. eCollection 2016 Aug.

Authors

Steven W Wilhelm¹, Samantha R Coy¹, Eric R Gann¹, Mohammad Moniruzzaman¹, Joshua M A Stough¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Eukaryota / virology*
Giant Viruses / physiology*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (MMI Experimental Model Systems #4971 to SWW), the Kenneth & Blaire Mossman Endowment to the University of Tennessee (SWW), and a University of Tennessee Penley Fellowship (MM). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.