Table 1.

Amoeba-resisting viruses with a publicly available genome sequence.

Family	Microorganism	Genome	Host	References
Mimiviridae	Mimivirus	1.18 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Raoult et al., 2004
Mimiviridae	Megavirus chilensis	1.26 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Arslan et al., 2011
Mimiviridae*	Cafeteria roenbergensis virus	0.730 Mb	C. roenbergensis	Fischer et al., 2010
–	Sputnik	0.018 Mb	Acanthamoeba	La Scola et al., 2008
Marseilleviridae	Marseillevirus	0.368 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Boyer et al., 2009
Marseilleviridae	Lausannevirus	0.346 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Thomas et al., 2011

^*Classification proposed by Colson et al. (2011).