Tiny but Mighty: Genetically Diverse Picophytoplankton Resist Viral Attacks (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Tiny but Mighty: Genetically Diverse Picophytoplankton Resist Viral Attacks (2 of 2)

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TEM of O. tauri and prasinoviruses. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 5, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Blanc-Mathieu at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Population genomics of picophytoplankton unveils novel chromosome hypervariability."

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[Credit: GENOPHY Lab UMR7232 CNRS-UPMC TEM: ML Escande]

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