Abdeali Virus

Welcome to Giant Virus propaganda

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

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!

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