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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by whatshisface on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:57AM (#34365071)
I think the OP was talking about the bacteria that derive non-negligible sustenance from viruses.

>Moreover, our foraging trials demonstrated robust growth in the Halteria population with only chloroviruses as food (rint = 0.66 ± 0.26 [SD], black lines, Fig. 1A), with minimal to no growth in the controls (with chloroviruses filtered out; rint = 0.22 ± 0.12 [SD], blue lines, Fig. 1C). The abundance of the larger Paramecium did not increase in treatment or control trials (Fig. 1D), indicating that not all ciliates can grow on chloroviruses in these conditions, even when they consume them.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215000120

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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by eru on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:07AM (#34365505)
Yes, I know. That's why I wrote

>> Up until last year nobody had thought to see whether anything eats viruses! Turns out some do.

> Nah, lots of things eat viruses. It's nothing unusual at all. You eat viruses, I eat viruses. They are everywhere, after all.

> The novel finding was a critter that lives / can live solely on viruses.

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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by moloch-hai on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:30AM (#34366414)
You wrote it, but it was what we all understood already, making writing it nothing but an exercise in snark.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by eru on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:23AM (#34366774)
Not sure.

Eg creatures that eat plastic are still news, even if plastic is not their sole diet.

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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by moloch-hai on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:46AM (#34367563)
Yet, you are eating plastic every day.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by eru on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:15AM (#34378024)
Yes, but not digesting it.
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