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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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    You might also enjoy learning about phages

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

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  • [–] 9 points 4 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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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    wierdly giant viruses mostly infect amoebas, rare instance infecting out unicelluar eukaryotes.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Good. Fuck em

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago