Table 4.
Events of lateral gene transfer with amoeba-resisting viruses.
| Microorganism | Virusesa | Host | Eukaryota | Bacteria | Archaea | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | P | B | P | B | P | B | P | B | P | |
| Mimivirus | 45 | 4 | 5 | 12–13 | 30 | 60 | 96 | 29 | n.a. | 1 |
| Marseillevirus | 59 | 51 | n.a. | 25 | 70 | 85 | 57 | 49 | 2 | n.a. |
| Lausannevirus | 2 | n.a. | 1 | n.a. | 2 | n.a. | 7 | n.a. | - | n.a. |
The table present the number of genes potentially laterally transferred as retrieved by BLAST-based (B) and by phylogeny-based (P) methods.
a
In Megavirus, 44 genes were reported to match against non-viral sequences in the nr database, but no information on taxonomic classification is available.