Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of Earth’s climate – and how viruses adapt to climate change
theconversation.com
From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their genomes tells the story of 41,000 years of climate change.
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Original Title: Researchers have decoded 41,000-years of virus metagenome in an ice core drilled from a Tibetan glacier, expanding known glacier-preserved ancient viruses more than 50x, and showing how the virus communities adapt to warmer and colder climatic periods