Fascinating. It seems sensible (to a layman) that something would eat viruses but how would we construct tests (not trolling) to determine:
1. if the Halteria were not eating something_else, and that something_else was infected by the viruses?
2. if the Halteria themselves were not infected by the viruses?
3. are the Halteria trying to ingest the viruses, or are they just ingesting lots_of_things in the petri dish?
This observation seems interesting, assuming all other variables were constant and there was not some other interplay between the chlorovirus and other microbes which indirectly helped the Halteria grow:
>Halteria deprived of the chlorovirus, meanwhile, wasn’t growing at all.
Finally if the Halteria can ingest it and yet not be 'infected' by it then that seems awfully interesting as well.
1. if the Halteria were not eating something_else, and that something_else was infected by the viruses?
2. if the Halteria themselves were not infected by the viruses?
3. are the Halteria trying to ingest the viruses, or are they just ingesting lots_of_things in the petri dish?
This observation seems interesting, assuming all other variables were constant and there was not some other interplay between the chlorovirus and other microbes which indirectly helped the Halteria grow:
>Halteria deprived of the chlorovirus, meanwhile, wasn’t growing at all.
Finally if the Halteria can ingest it and yet not be 'infected' by it then that seems awfully interesting as well.