Interested in Zombie cells (SAR11 phage infection)?

Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thanks to all collaborators: Chandni Sidhu, Yanlin Zhao, Andi Eich, Leonard Rößler, @cotoorellana.bsky.social, & Bernhard Fuchs. :)

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Lats but not least, phage-infected SAR11 cells and zombie cells occurred globally. We detected them in all samples that we assessed (Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Ocean).

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We believe the ribosomal RNA is a valuable resource for the production of new (dsDNA) phages. 🧬

This has been suggested by Matt Sullivan et al. but has not been shown yet ...

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