Some Viruses Have a Completely Different Genome to The Rest of Life on Earth
Some Viruses Have a Completely Different Genome to The Rest of Life on Earth 4 MAY 2021 In the world of microbial warfare, sometimes you have to change the very fabric of who you are. Viruses that infect bacteria – fittingly called bacteriophages - and their prey have been at war for eons, each side evolving more devilish tactics to infect or destroy each other. Eventually, some bacteriophages took this arms race to a new level by changing the way they code their DNA. At least, that's what we think happened. Once thought to be an outlier, new research published in three separate paper...