Abdeali Virus

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Publications

This is where I will have my publications listed. Please reach out to me if you ever need a copy of the article (if it’s not already open access)

2026

  1. Check out my tool Viralrecall 3.0: a python tool to search for endogenous giant viruses (GEVEs) integrated into the genome of eukaryotes. Paper in progress!
  2. Victoria Fulgencio Queiroz, Juliana Miranda Tatara, Abdeali Mustafa Jivaji, Cindy Jittrapan Given, …, Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida (2026). Isolation of a cohort of giant viruses from above the Arctic circle in Northern Norway. Environmental Microbiology, 28(7), e70366. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70366 

2025

  1. Erazo-Garcia MP, …, Jivaji AM, et al. 2025. Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga. Science 0:eads6303. 10.1126/science.ads6303
  2. Jivaji AM, Karki S, Franken E, Erazo-Garcia MP, Barth ZK, Aylward FO. 2025. Giant endogenous viral elements in the genome of the model protist Euglena gracilis reveal past interactions with giant viruses. Journal of Virology 0:e00713-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00713-25
  3. Rodrigues, M., Queiroz, V., Arantes, T., …, Jivaji A., et al. 2025. Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail. Nature Communications, 16, 8306. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63463-6

2023

  1. Moniruzzaman M, …, Jivaji A, et al. 2023. Virologs, viral mimicry, and virocell metabolism: the expanding scale of cellular functions encoded in the complex genomes of giant viruses. FEMS Microbiol Rev 47:fuad053. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad053