virovoreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• virivore

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virovore (複数形 virovores)

1. (biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses
   • 2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.

2. (by extension) An organism which deliberately eats viruses.

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