Link between herpesviruses and giant viruses no longer missing
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The stork brought it. Seriously, didn't your parents have that talk with you when you wer in middle school?
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Haha totally misread the headline and put up a stupid comment.. ....Deleted the comment but will leave this here for the deserved shame 
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methinks we're out numbered, by a whole lot.
while we claim to be at the 'top' of the evolutionary ladder, these hanger ons, just keep hanging on.
the more we look at the most basic life forms, these that are distributed, seemingly everywhere, we may need more than cloud storage to put all the data into.
while we claim to be at the 'top' of the evolutionary ladder, these hanger ons, just keep hanging on.
the more we look at the most basic life forms, these that are distributed, seemingly everywhere, we may need more than cloud storage to put all the data into.
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I hate that I don't know enough about this subject to offer a pithy comment, an informed joke, or some nitpicky pedantry.
Because I like these articles. I wish there were more of them; it's a fascinating read, but if it's basically correct on the science, we won't get pages of back and forth.
So, "some expert," let's find where they're wrong, and then "other expert in an adjacent field," let's correct the first gal, then the two of you go back and forth about it in ways that seem like they'll be over everyone's head.
(They will be over lots of people's heads, but I learn a lot from those discussions. Especially when it's far outside my wheelhouse.)
K? Discussion ho!
Because I like these articles. I wish there were more of them; it's a fascinating read, but if it's basically correct on the science, we won't get pages of back and forth.
So, "some expert," let's find where they're wrong, and then "other expert in an adjacent field," let's correct the first gal, then the two of you go back and forth about it in ways that seem like they'll be over everyone's head.
(They will be over lots of people's heads, but I learn a lot from those discussions. Especially when it's far outside my wheelhouse.)
K? Discussion ho!
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Link between herpesviruses and giant viruses no longer missing
Don’t be alarmed: They only infect plankton.
.... for now
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For me it is the Space Herpe from Ice Pirates.
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The plague is bacterial (Yersinia pestis). However, plague can also be used to mean "to disturb or annoy persistently". So it fits.
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Megaviruses - but don't be alarmed.
Ars Technica guys are not becoming millionaires with this responsible beta loser attitude.
Ars Technica guys are not becoming millionaires with this responsible beta loser attitude.
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IncorrigibleTroll
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Fair enough. Though that second definition seems a mite underwhelming compared to the impact ol' Yersinia has had throughout history, even if antibiotics have rendered it a minor threat.
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Since not all historical plagues were just Y. pestis or indeed bacterial at all (the Plague of Galen is believed to be smallpox), plus the original meaning of the Latin word simply meant "a blow" (as in "a strike"), you can indeed say a plague of locusts or a plague of cholera, however strange it might sound...
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Curious how there’s a bunch that are specific to the Arctic Ocean, but not to the southern ocean.
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Both the poxvirus and the herpesvirus clades are considered ancient. Seems these findings may unify much of the DNA-viruses phylogenetics by narrowing down the hypothetical capsid change event.
Poxviruses clade with the other nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses and is often found to be a basal branch. ["Nucleocytoviricota", Wikipedia] They belong to Varidnaviria based on the capsid proteins ["Varidnaviria", Wikipedia]. And as the paper gets into due to the capsid change hypothesis, herpesviruses which are Duplodnaviria belong to another of the three clades of DNA-viruses based on the capsid proteins ["DNA virus", Wikipedia].
Poxviruses clade with the other nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses and is often found to be a basal branch. ["Nucleocytoviricota", Wikipedia] They belong to Varidnaviria based on the capsid proteins ["Varidnaviria", Wikipedia]. And as the paper gets into due to the capsid change hypothesis, herpesviruses which are Duplodnaviria belong to another of the three clades of DNA-viruses based on the capsid proteins ["DNA virus", Wikipedia].
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