{"id":677734,"date":"2021-01-08T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677734"},"modified":"2021-01-08T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:59:15","slug":"scientists-discover-virus-like-particles-in-bryozoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677734","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover virus-like particles in Bryozoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Russia, Austria, and the USA have discovered virus-like particles in the bacterial symbionts of Bryozoa\u2014a phylum of colonial aquatic invertebrates\u2014filter-feeders dominating in many bottom ecosystems. The research project was planned and supervised by scientists from St Petersburg University. Some of the virus-like particles resemble red blood cells, while others have a sea-urchin-like appearance. Although viruses have never been reported inside symbiotic bacteria in bryozoans, scientists suggest that this &#8216;matryoshka doll&#8217; may have a prominent effect on the bacterial hosts.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-scientists-virus-like-particles-bryozoa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists discover virus-like particles in Bryozoa<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Russia, Austria, and the USA have discovered virus-like particles in the bacterial symbionts of Bryozoa\u2014a phylum of colonial aquatic invertebrates\u2014filter-feeders dominating in many bottom ecosystems. The research project&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}