{"id":162940,"date":"2023-04-28T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-discover-over-30000-hidden-viruses-in-the-dna-of-single-celled-organisms"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:23:02","slug":"researchers-discover-over-30000-hidden-viruses-in-the-dna-of-single-celled-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/researchers-discover-over-30000-hidden-viruses-in-the-dna-of-single-celled-organisms","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover over 30,000 hidden viruses in the DNA of single-celled organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-over-30000-hidden-viruses-in-the-dna-of-single-celled-organisms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research project was originally based on a new group of viruses that the study authors discovered in the water of the Gossenk\u00f6llesee in Tyrol, Austria, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During a comprehensive study of complex single-celled microbes, scientists from the University of Innsbruck\u2019s Department of Ecology made a groundbreaking discovery. They discovered the DNA of more than 30,000 viruses that were previously unknown, integrated into the microbes\u2019 genome.<\/p>\n<p>The study revealed that some microbes contain a significant proportion of their DNA that is made up of hidden viruses, up to 10 percent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Kontekbrothers\/iStock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research project was originally based on a new group of viruses that the study authors discovered in the water of the Gossenk\u00f6llesee in Tyrol, Austria, in 2021. During a comprehensive study of complex single-celled microbes, scientists from the University of Innsbruck\u2019s Department of Ecology made a groundbreaking discovery. They discovered the DNA of more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162940","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}