wikipedia link for those who just wanna learn about giant virus's.

The wildest thing to me is that the viruses that prey on giant viruses work by infecting bacteria/algea, and then waiting for a giant virus to infect it too before it attacks.

The bacteria get infected with an anti-virus virus! It's just like Norton on computers!

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[–] 9 points 5 months ago

Pox viruses incl smallpox are of this type.

I wonder what the smallest host:virus size ratio is, is there a virus that gets spawned by a cell only big enough to fit 2 protein coats?

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