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We found a really cool giant virus inside the genome of a green alga, and it has a very strange infection cycle that is hard to detect.

There are reports going back decades of viral particles spontaneously appearing in pure cultures of green algae, so this phenomenon seems quite common but mostly overlooked.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads6303

#viruses #microbiology #algae

#microbiology #viruses #algae

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Bluedepth
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“What’s on the manifest?” // “You aren’t going to like this…” // “Tell me, I can take it.” // “Algae Herpes”
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Alex Crits-Christoph
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Congrats, amazing paper! Just read it, saw your name, and remembererd you were active on here!

Consider also joining us on bsky - we have a pretty vibrant microbial ecology community there (hence why I haven't checked in or posted as much here recently)

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