A new type of bacteria-killing virus has been found in the ocean by MIT scientists, who found that their genomes were quite different from other viruses, and thus undetected by standard tests. The virus may play an important role in regulating bacterial populations, as a new study reports in Nature.

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A new type of bacteria-killing virus has been found in the ocean by MIT scientists, who found that their genomes were quite different from other viruses, and thus undetected by standard tests. The virus may play an important role in regulating bacterial populations, as a new study reports in Nature.