[Coral-List] relatives of influenza in corals

[KEVEN REED]

I'm thinking back to that paradigm shift in 1986 when the SUNY grad student, Lita Proctor, did a systematic search for viruses in pelagic water samples she collected in the Caribbean & the Sargasso Sea.  Her electron microscope discovered billions of viruses in every liter of seawater whether floating viruses or viruses inside bacteria.

If evolution began on this planet in water, then .......

Keven Reed, O.D.
Sustaining member ICRS
mobile: 904-505-7277
Fleming Island, FL 32003

> On 03/01/2023 5:21 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
>  
> Did flu come from fish? Genetics points to influenza's aquatic origins
> Corals, sturgeons, and other aquatic creatures harbour signs of infection
> by influenza and its distant relatives.
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00558-4
> 
> Cheers, Doug
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