{"id":162923,"date":"2023-04-28T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-have-found-30000-new-viruses-hiding-in-the-dna-of-microbes"},"modified":"2023-04-28T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T07:22:22","slug":"scientists-have-found-30000-new-viruses-hiding-in-the-dna-of-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-have-found-30000-new-viruses-hiding-in-the-dna-of-microbes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found 30,000 New Viruses Hiding in The DNA of Microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-30000-new-viruses-hiding-in-the-dna-of-microbes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While analyzing the genomes of single-celled microbes, a team of researchers made a startling discovery: Thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/more-than-5-000-brand-new-viruses-have-been-discovered-lurking-in-the-oceans\">previously unknown viruses<\/a> were \u201chidden\u201d within the microbes\u2019 DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found DNA from more than 30,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">viruses<\/a> built into genomes of various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-images-reveal-the-tiniest-known-life-forms-on-earth\">single-celled microbes<\/a>, they report in a new study. They explain that viral DNA might enable a host cell to replicate complete, functional viruses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very surprised by how many viruses we found through this analysis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/en\/newsroom\/2023\/stowaways-in-the-genome\/\">says<\/a> lead author Christopher Bellas, an ecologist who studies viruses at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. \u201cIn some cases, up to 10 percent of a microbe\u2019s DNA turned out to consist of hidden viruses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While analyzing the genomes of single-celled microbes, a team of researchers made a startling discovery: Thousands of previously unknown viruses were \u201chidden\u201d within the microbes\u2019 DNA. The researchers found DNA from more than 30,000 viruses built into genomes of various single-celled microbes, they report in a new study. They explain that viral DNA might enable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}