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(biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.
Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
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Virovore means (biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses.
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Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.
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