Citations:virivore

English citations of virivore

• [2005, Y. Bettarel, T. Sime-Ngando, M. Bouvy, R. Arfi, C Amblard, “Low consumption of virus-sized particles by heterotrophic nanoflagellates in two lakes of the French Massif Central”, in Aquatic Microbial Ecology‎^[1], volume 39, page 207:

  It is thus tempting to believe that virivorous organisms, like bacterivorous ones, should be able to optimize their food uptake by exploiting patches of high prey abundances.]

• 2023 January 12, Miguel Angel Criado, “Virivores, the organism can eat up to a million viruses a day”, in El Pais‎^[2], Spain: Prisa:

  These are the virivores. As their name implies, they sustain themselves on a diet of viruses.

• 2023 January 14, Staff Writers, “The First ‘Virivore’: An Organism That Can Feed Only on Viruses, Up to a Million a Day”, in The Costa Rica News‎^[3], Costa Rica: TCRN:

  There are plants that digest amphibians, algae that feed on fish, or viruses that infect bacteria. But among the relationships between predator and prey there is one that is barely known and that could be essential in the cycle of life: beings that eat viruses. The virivores. Although the word does not yet exist, a group of American researchers have discovered two groups of microorganisms that are neither animals, nor plants, nor fungi, but neither are they bacteria, called ciliated protists, and that feed on viruses. Although they are not the first virus-eating organisms identified, they have shown that organisms can thrive by feeding exclusively on viral material.

• 2023 January 17, Jasna Hodžić, ““Virivores” discovered: Microbes that survive on a virus-only diet”, in Big Think‎^[4], USA: Freethink Media:

  Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.

• 2023 February 13, Zachary Van Roy, “Microbe Monday: Halteria, the Virus-eating Microbe”, in University of Nebraska Medical Center‎^[5]:

  A new paper authored by Dr. John DeLong and colleagues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has identified the first microbe which acts as a ‘virivore’ or virus-eating organism. Meet Halteria sp. (pictured right), a ciliate which lives in freshwater aquatic environments.

• [2023 July 23, Prashant Prajapat, Rakhi Gangi, Daljeet Chhabra, Joycee Jogi, Rakesh Sharda, Ravi Sikrodia, “Virovore: Creature that eats virus”, in Zenodo‎^[6], archived from the original on 2024-04-09:

  The name virivore (equivalently, virovore) derives from the Latin word ‘vorare’, which means to eat or devour, and the English prefix viro-, which means virus and it is a translation of the Latin word for poison. Virivory, in which organisms, predominantly heterotrophic protists but also some metazoans, consume viruses, is a well-described process (González and Suttle, 1993).]