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TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins

This Week in Evolution

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The Evolution of Microbes in the Arcea

Nals: I think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, in terms of the amount of microbial diversity. It's sort of like, you know, the analogy to astronomy, how many stars are there in the sky? And as your telescopes get more powerful, like that number gets bigger and bigger. Similar thing happening, of course, in the virosphere with some massive advantages or advances for giant virus genomes.

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