ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
The consumption of viruses returns energy to food chains.
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Abstract
Viruses impact host cells and have indirect effects on ecosystem processes. Plankton such as ciliates can reduce the abundance of virions in water, but whether virus consumption translates into demographic consequences for the grazers is unknown. Here, we show that small protists not only can consume viruses they also can grow and divide given only viruses to eat. Moreover, the ciliate
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