Researchers have found a new virus, identified as a bacteriophage, at a depth of 29,199 feet (8,900 meters).
The virus, called vB_HmeY_H4907, was found at a depth of 29,199 feet inside the Mariana Trench, which drops to about 36,000 feet at its lowest point on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
"To our best knowledge, this is the deepest known isolated phage in the global ocean,"lead-author Min Wang, a marine virologist at the Ocean University of China, in Qingdao, said in a statement.—Giant viruses are infecting algae in a floating lake in the ArcticThe newly discovered virus infects bacteria in the phylum Halomonas, and does so lysogenically — which means that it inserts its genetic material into the bacterial genome and replicates without killing the bacteria.
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