How does one discover a virus in the ocean? Are there just viruses living in the ocean and scientists out there getting beakers of ocean water to microscope?
The virus she told you not to worry about.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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danc4498@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Pretty much.
The ocean is a war zone, an endless battle between bacteria and viruses. Trillions of dead every day; weapons developed and discarded as the tide of battle ebbs and flows.
klemptor@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Yeah but viruses are obligate intracellular parasites - they can’t survive for long outside of a host cell and have to reproduce using the machinery of a host cell. I’m curious what this virus is parasitizing.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
eh pretty much the blood war then
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
Sounds like it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
the ocean is filled with viruses, mostly for bacteriophages, archaea virus(viruses that infect archaea, and other organisms. and most viruses can only be seen with electron microscope, because they are smaller than the wavelength of light.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right?! A LifeStraw would catch that.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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