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Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of Earth’s climate – and how viruses adapt to climate change

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A team of microbiologists and paleoclimatologists studies ancient microorganisms, including viruses preserved within glacier ice.

They reconstructed the genomes of 1,705 virus species from the Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau .

They found that viruses consistently infected Flavobacterium , a lineage of bacteria commonly found in glacier environments.

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