Microbe makes a virus to fight a giant virus

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3097, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A voracious marine predator plagued by a giant virus has a defense system people have never seen before--it fights back by making its very own virus. The individuals that make these bioweapons sacrifice themselves to save their fellow predators. The single-celled predator, Cafeteria roenbergensis, swims in coastal waters catching bacteria. But Cafeteria has a deadly enemy of its own, the giant CroV virus