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… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like … bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of … have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  Nucleocytoviricota , these giant … virus, the  E.   huxleyi virus, plays a key role in those cycles, as well. When the virus infects a bloom of  E. …