. 2019 Aug 8;11(8):733. doi: 10.3390/v11080733

Table 1.

Virophages discovered by co-culture and genomic and their main features.

Virophage	Year of Description	Place of Isolation	Associated Giant Virus	Capsid Size (nm)	Genome Features			GenBank/EBI Accession No.	References
Virophage	Year of Description	Place of Isolation	Associated Giant Virus	Capsid Size (nm)	Size (bp)	Number of ORFs	G+C (%)	GenBank/EBI Accession No.	References
Sputnik	2008	France	Mamavirus	50–74	18,343	21	27	EU606015	[30]
Mavirus	2010	USA	Cafeteria roenbergensis virus	60	19,063	20	30	NC_015230	[87]
Sputnik 2	2012	France	Lentillevirus	50–74	18,338	20	27	NC_023846	[38]
Sputnik 3	2013	France	APMV ¹	50–74	18,338	20	27	NC_023847	[88]
PgVV	2013	North Sea	Phaeocystis globosa virus	N.d.	19,527	16	36	NC_021333	[62]
Zamilon	2014	Tunisia	Mont1	60	17,276	20	30	NC_022990	[89]
RNV	2014	Brazil	Sambavirus	50–70	18,145	20	27	MG676470	[90]
Platanovirus saccamoebae virophage	2018	Germany	KSL5 virus	50	N.d.	N.d.	N.d.	N.d.	[91]
Guarani	2019	Brazil	APMV ¹	50–74	18,967	22	26	LS999520	[92]
3 CpV-PLV virophages	2019	USA	CpV-BQ2	N.d.	21,750- 22,879	19–23	30–39	MH920636/ MH919296/ MH919297	[69]

PgVV: Phaeocystis globosa Virus Virophage RNV: Rio Negro Virophage. CpV-PLV: Chrysochromulina parva Virus - Polintons-like virophages, N.d.: Not determined. ¹ this giant virus was only used as helper to isolate the virophage.