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.
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danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
Sounds like it.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 days 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 days 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.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Depends on the virus. Some of the hepatitis viruses can live for months outside of a host.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn’t tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably your mom, the whale.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This sounds like a game I would play the shit out of
EmoPolarbear@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s called spore
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Honestly that stage of the game doesn’t last long enough. It’s the best part.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
well, there was a game called “Everything” from 2017 where you can do that….
(i recommend playing it before reading about it but: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(video_game) ).
(also, very good with weed)
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 days ago
eh pretty much the blood war then