Table 1.
Protozoal giant viruses—family Mimiviridae
| No. | Genera of virus | Species [ref] | Genetic material | Host | Place and year of isolation | Line/group | Virophage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mimivirus | Mimivirus -Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) [16] | Linear dsDNA | Acanthamoeba (A.) polyphaga | Cooling tower water, hospital, Bradford (Great Britain)—2003 | A | Sputnik |
| Mamavirus – Acanthamoeba castellani mamavirus (ACMV) [8, 61] | Linear dsDNA |
A. castellani A. polyphaga |
Cooling tower water, hospital, Paris (France)—2008 Soil (France)—2012 |
Sputnik Sputnik 3 | |||
| Lentille virus [7] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. polyphaga | Contact lenses solution (France)—2012 | Sputnik 2 | |||
| Samba virus [6] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. castellani | Negro River Amazonia (Brasil)—2014 | Rio Negro | |||
| Kroon virus [54] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Municipal lake (Brasil)—2015 | No | |||
| Amazonia virus [54] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Amazonia’s river (Brasil)—2015 | No | |||
| Oyster virus [54] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Oyster farm (Brasil)—2015 | No | |||
| Niemeyer virus [55] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Municipal lake (Brasil)—2015 | No | |||
| Mimivirus bombay [56] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. castellani | Sewage Mumbai (India)—2016 | No | |||
| Moumouvirus—Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus [42] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. polyphaga | Cooling tower water (France)—2008 | B | No | ||
| Moumouvirus monve [42] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Cooling tower water (France)—2008 | No | |||
| Saudi moumouvirus [91] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A.polyphaga | Hospital’s sewage in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)—2016 | No | |||
| Courdo11 [58] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | River Le Peyron (France)—2010 | C | No | ||
| Megavirus chilensis [42] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Sea water (Chile)—2011 | No | |||
| Mont1 [60] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. polyphaga | Soil (Tunisia)—2014 | Zamilon | |||
| Shan virus [62] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Human’s faeces (Tunisia)—2013 | No | |||
| LBA111 [15, 62] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp | Human’s bronchoscopy specimen (Tunisia)—2013 | No | |||
| 2. | Cafeteriavirus | Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (CroV) [5, 65] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Cafeteria roenbergensis | Sea water (USA)—2011 | Non-defined | Mavirus |
| 3. | Non-defined* | Non-defined* [39] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Non-defined | Lake in Antarctica—2013 | Non-defined | ALM |
| Non-defined* [92] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Sheep’s rumen (USA)—2015 | RVP | ||||
| 4. | Klosneuvirus | Klosneuvirus [67, 68] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Acanthamoeba spp. | Sewage treatment plant, Austria—2017 | Non-defined | No |
| Catovirus [67, 68] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | ||||||
| Hokovirus [67, 68] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | ||||||
| Indivirus [67, 68] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | ||||||
| 5. | Tupanvirus | Tupanvirus from salt lake [67] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | A. castellanii Vermamoeba vermiformis | Salt lake Nhecolândia (Brasil)—2018 | Non-defined | No |
| Tupanvirus from the ocean [67] | dsDNA (arrangement non-defined) | Ocean’s waters Campos dos Goytacazes (Brasil)—2018 |
*Probably the Mimiviridae family members