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Some Viruses Have a Completely Different Genome to The Rest of Life on Earth – ScienceAlert
In the world of microbial warfare, sometimes you have to change the very fabric of who you are.
In the world of microbial warfare, sometimes you have to change the very fabric of who you are.
Viruses that infect bacteria fittingly called bacteriophages – and their prey have been at war for eons, each side evolving more devilish tactics to infect or destroy each other. Eventually, some bacteriophages took this arms race to a new level by changing the way they code their DNA.
At least, that’s what we think happened. Once thought to be an outlier, new research published in three separate papers…
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