{"id":101397,"date":"2009-11-25T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18884161.post-789132416404539484"},"modified":"2009-11-25T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:20:04","slug":"natural-gmos-part-58-each-second-of-time-in-the-ocean-natural-gene-movement-occurs-ten-times-ten-repeated-23-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101397","title":{"rendered":"Natural GMOs part 58. Each second of time in the ocean , natural gene movement occurs ten times ten repeated 23 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marine viruses \u2014 major players in the global ecosystem<\/strong><br \/>Curtis A. Suttle<\/p>\n<p>Abstract of scientific article:<\/p>\n<p>Viruses are by far the most abundant \u2018lifeforms\u2019 in the oceans and are the reservoir of most of the genetic diversity in the sea. The estimated 10^30 viruses in the ocean, if stretched end to end, would span farther than the nearest 60 galaxies. <strong><span style=\"color:#009900;\">Every second, approximately 10^23 viral infections occur in the ocean.<\/span><\/strong> These infections are a major source of mortality, and cause disease in a range of organisms, from shrimp to whales. As a result, viruses influence the composition of marine communities and are a major force behind biogeochemical cycles.<br \/>Each infection has the potential to introduce new genetic information into an organism or progeny virus, thereby driving the evolution of both host and viral assemblages. Probing this vast reservoir of genetic and biological diversity continues to yield exciting discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Nature Reviews Microbiology Volume 5 October 2007 pages 801-812<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18884161-789132416404539484?l=gmopundit.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine viruses \u2014 major players in the global ecosystemCurtis A. Suttle Abstract of scientific article: Viruses are by far the most abundant \u2018lifeforms\u2019 in the oceans and are the reservoir of most of the genetic diversity in the sea. The estimated 10^30 viruses in the ocean, if stretched end to end, would span farther than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}