Monday, April 6, 2020

Viruses don't have a metabolism; but some have the building blocks for one


In satellite photos of the Earth, clouds of bright green bloom across the surface of lakes and oceans as algae populations explode in nutrient-rich water. From the air, the algae appear to be the primary players in the ecological drama unfolding below.
But those  we credit for influencing the aquatic environment at the base of the food chain may be under the influence of something else:  whose  can reconfigure their hosts' metabolism.


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