The sympatric lifestyle of giant viruses: contact tracing and fitness through mobile genetic elements

Project Information

CHIMERA

Grant agreement ID: 101039843

DOI

10.3030/101039843

EC signature date 19 September 2022

Start date 1 July 2023

End date 30 June 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 899,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 899,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Drafting of Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Mimivirus transcription and translation occur at well-defined locations within amoeba host cells

Author(s): Lotte Mayer, Georgi Nikolov, Martin Kunert, Matthias Horn, Anouk Willemsen
Published in: Journal of Virology, Issue 99, 2025, ISSN 0022-538X
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00554-25

A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria

Author(s): Patrick Arthofer, Florian Panhölzl, Vincent Delafont, Alban Hay, Siegfried Reipert, Norbert Cyran, Stefanie Wienkoop, Anouk Willemsen, Ines Sifaoui, Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez, Frederik Schulz, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, Matthias Horn
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-47308-2

Novel High-Quality Amoeba Genomes Reveal Widespread Codon Usage Mismatch Between Giant Viruses and Their Hosts

Author(s): Anouk Willemsen, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Matthias Horn
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/GBE/EVAE271