Within the deepest, darkest, and most mysterious place on Earth lie miniscule parasitic monsters.
shaped head. Its tail, which it uses to identify and penetrate its target bacteria, spans about 183 nm.
A study of the virus's genes failed to find a match for anything on record, suggesting it belongs to a completely new family ofYet the phage's genetic code is similar to six other viral genomes found in thebacteria, so the team believe Suviridae are a highly abundant and widely distributed group of phages.
These findings add to the enormous diversity of viruses thought to exist in this extreme environment, but vB_HmeY_H4907 is only the third strain isolated from a trench.Wang."Viruses, in this case." This role of regulators means that despite their tiny sizes and their inability to exist without their hosts, viruses such as these play a huge role in marine ecosystems, from top to bottom.
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