Citations:virovorous

English citations of virovorous

• 2022 December 29, Staff Writers, “An organism that feeds only on viruses has been discovered for the first time”, in ORDO News‎^[1], Tirana:

  They also force us to reconsider the entire carbon cycle in the microcosm, where viruses not only contribute to its release from infected cells, but can themselves serve as its source for voracious virovorous ciliates.

• 2023 January 3, Staff, “Scientists discover the first ‘virovoro’, an organism capable of feeding on viruses”, in techypu‎^[2]:

  Scientists have discovered the first virovorous organism, capable of feeding exclusively on viruses . The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , determines that a species of Halteria ( microscopic freshwater ciliates ) can eat large amounts of chloroviruses that share its habitat.

• 2023 January 4, kuhewa, “Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses”, in ycombinator‎^[3]:

  It isn't just mutation rate but generation time as well, even with the same mutation rate a virus that replicates several times a day would evolve faster. But there's certainly scope for us to artificially select for traits in virovorous organisms for our own purposes, we commonly do for crop plants to provide viral resistance or tolerance and viruses don't overcome them too quickly. Traditional methods have included x-ray mutagenesis where we crudely induce mutations in a lot of plants and see if any are useful afterward.

• 2023 January 5, Alice, “They find the first organism that feeds on viruses”, in Chile Detail Zero‎^[4], Chile: Detail Zero:

  A group of researchers has discovered the first virovorous organism, that is, one that feeds exclusively on viruses as detailed in a recent study published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

• 2023 January 12, Dr. Ramón Martínez-Mármol, “tweet 1613500158754557953”, in @marmol_dr‎^[5], twitter:

  Halteria sp. and Paramecium bursaria as first discovered virovorous (virus eaters😎😎) organisms. — The consumption of viruses returns energy to food chains | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences