Table 1.

Overview of the Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae families and experimentally shown virophage infections.

Family	La	Name	Place discovered	Size [nm]	References	GenBank Acc. No.	Genome size [kbp]	No. of ORFs (predicted)	GC%	Virophage	References
Mimiviridae	A	A. polyphaga mimivirus	Bradford, England	750	La Scola et al., 2003	NC_014649.1	1,182	979	28	Sputnik	La Scola et al., 2008
	A	A. polyphaga mamavirus	Paris, France	750	Colson et al., 2011	JF801956.1	1,192	1023	28	Sputnik	La Scola et al., 2008
	A	Hirudovirus	Tunisia	520	Boughalmi et al., 2013a	KF493731.1	1,155	992	28	No report
	A	Niemeyer virus	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	620	Boratto et al., 2015	KT599914.1	1,299	1003	28	No report
	A	Samba virus	Negro River, Brazil	570	Campos et al., 2014; Assis et al., 2015	KF959826.2	1,181	971	28	Rio Negro	Campos et al., 2014
	A	Amazonian virus	Negro River, Brazil		Assis et al., 2015	KM982403	1,180	979	27	No report
	A	Kroon virus	Lagoa Santa, Brazil		Assis et al., 2015	KM982402.1	1,222	944	27	No report
	A	Oyster virus	Florianópolis, Brazil		Assis et al., 2015	KM982401.1	1,200	948	27	No report
	A	Pointe-Rouge 1 virus	Marseille, France	390	La Scola et al., 2010	LN871174.1	1,151			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Longchamps virus		450	La Scola et al., 2010	LN871173.1	1,104			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Fauteuil virus		600	La Scola et al., 2010	LN871163.1	1,181			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Terra2 virus	Marseille, France	370	La Scola et al., 2010; Yoosuf et al., 2014b	KF527228.1	1,167	890	28	Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Pointe-Rouge 2 virus	Marseille, France	500	La Scola et al., 2010	LN871172.1	1,163			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Lactour virus		450	La Scola et al., 2010	CXOL00000000.1*	1,181			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	A	Lentille virus	Marseille, France	500	La Scola et al., 2010	AFYC00000000.1*	1,193	807		Sputnik	La Scola et al., 2010
	A	Shirakomae virus	Nagano, Japan		Takemura et al., 2016	AP017645.1	1,183	996		No report
	A	Kasaii virus	Tokyo, Japan		Takemura et al., 2016	AP017644.1	1,183	996		No report
	A	Bombay virus	Mumbai, India	435	Chatterjee et al., 2016b	KU761889.1	1,182	898	28	No report
	B	A. polyphaga moumouvirus	South-East France	420	La Scola et al., 2010; Yoosuf et al., 2012	NC020104.1	1,021	930		Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	B	Monve virus		390	La Scola et al., 2010	JN885994-6001*	1,015			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	B	Saudi moumouvirus	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	500	Bajrai et al., 2016	KY110734.1	1,046	868	26	No report
	B	Goulette virus			Boughalmi et al., 2013c	KC008572.1	1,017	979		No report
	C	Megavirus chiliensis	Las Cruces, Chile	700	Arslan et al., 2011	JN258408.1	1,259	1120	25	No report
	C	LBA111 virus	Tunisia	550	Saadi et al., 2013a	JX885207.1	1,231	1183		No report
	C	Courdo 11 virus	Saint-Raphael, France	450	La Scola et al., 2010; Yoosuf et al., 2014a	JX975216.1	1,246	1166		Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Courdo 7 virus	France	400	La Scola et al., 2010	JN885990-3	1,000			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Terra1 virus	Marseille, France	420	La Scola et al., 2010; Yoosuf et al., 2014b	KF527229.1	1,234	1055	25	Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Shan virus	Marseille, France	640	Saadi et al., 2013b	LN868520.1	1,259			No report
	C	Courdo5 virus		400	La Scola et al., 2010	LN868540.1	0,922			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Powai Lake megavirus	Mumbai, India	425	Chatterjee et al., 2016a	KU877344.1	1,209	996	25	No report
	C	Bus virus		400	La Scola et al., 2010	LN868539.1	1,229			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Avenue 9 virus			Boughalmi et al., 2013c	LN867403.1	1,214			No report
	C	Montpellier 3 virus	Montpellier, France	370	La Scola et al., 2010	LN868518.1	1,243			Sputnik	Gaia et al., 2013
	C	Mont1 virus	Tunisia	500	Boughalmi et al., 2013c					Zamilon	Gaia et al., 2014
Marseilleiviridae	A	Marseillevirus marseillevirus T19	Paris, France	250	Boyer et al., 2009	NC_013756	0,368	457	45	No report
	A	Giant blood marseillevirus	Marseille, France	220	Popgeorgiev et al., 2013	PRJNA185405*	0,357	617	45	No report
	A	Cannes8 virus	Cannes, France	190	La Scola et al., 2010; Aherfi et al., 2013	KF261120	0,374	484		No report
	A	Senegalvirus	N'diop, Senegal	200	Lagier et al., 2012	JF909596-602*	0,373			No report
	A	Melbournevirus	Melbourne, Australia	200	Doutre et al., 2014	KM275475.1	0,369	403	45	No report
	B	Lausannevirus	Seine River, France	200	Thomas et al., 2011	NC_015326	0,347	450		No report
	B	Port-Miou virus	Port-Miou Calanque, France	200	Doutre et al., 2015	KT428292.1	0,349	410		No report
	B	Noumeavirus	Noumea, New Caledonia	200	Fabre et al., 2017	NC_033775	0,376	452	43	No report
	C	Tunisvirus	Tunis, Tunisia	250	Boughalmi et al., 2013c; Aherfi et al., 2014	KF483846.1	0,380	484	43	No report
	C	Insectomime virus	Tunis, Tunisia	225	Boughalmi et al., 2013b	KF527888.1	0,387	477	43	No report
	C	Tokyovirus A1	Arakawa River, Japan	200	Takemura, 2016	AP017398.1	0,373	487		No report
	D	Brazilian marseillevirus	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	250	Dornas et al., 2015, 2016	NC_029692	0,362	491	43	No report
	E	Golden marseillevirus	Guaíba Lake, Brazil	200	Dos Santos et al., 2016	KT835053.1	0,361	483	43	No report

^*Genomes with separate available contigs or only raw sequencing data.

^aLineage.