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Antarctic Archaea Can Behave Like Parasites, Microbiologists Find


New research shows that Candidatus Nanohaloarchaeum antarcticus, a DPANN archaeon from an Antarctic hypersaline lake called Deep Lake, behaves like a parasitic predator that rapidly kills its host, Halorubrum lacusprofundi.

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