It is known as a 'bacteria eater'.
Plunging 11,000 metres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean at its lowest point, the murky depths of the trench between Indonesia and Japan are home to myriad weird and wonderful creatures, including the seadevil anglerfish and goblinIt is also home to billions of microscopic residents – bacteria – and some of those are infected with a newly discovered virus.
‘Wherever there’s life, you can bet there are regulators at work,’ said Dr Min Wang, who led a new study of the trench. ‘Viruses, in this case.’ The virus, discovered in sediment collected at 8,900 metres deep, is a bacteriophage, which literally means ‘bacteria eater’. The virus infects and replicates inside bacteria, but in this case does not appear to kill its host. As the bacteria cell divides, the viral genetic material is also copied and passed on.
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