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… species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses … kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses … The team discovered that the mat’s viruses specialize to single hosts, and instead of lysing them, which appears to …

… step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group … by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and viral genomes, as well as genomes …