Microbes scared to death by virus presence

Pictured is Rachel Whitaker, Associate Professor of Microbiology, at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio.

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