{"id":9720,"date":"2025-06-17T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:19:46","slug":"hundreds-of-mysterious-giant-viruses-discovered-lurking-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/hundreds-of-mysterious-giant-viruses-discovered-lurking-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Mysterious Giant Viruses Discovered Lurking in The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hundreds-of-mysterious-giant-viruses-discovered-lurking-in-the-ocean\">Science Alert<\/a> Scientists have just discovered hundreds of new giant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\">viruses<\/a>, in a comprehensive study covering oceans across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team behind the study, marine biologist Benjamin Minch and virologist Mohammad Moniruzzaman from the University of Miami, used bespoke computer software to identify the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genome\">genomes<\/a>&nbsp;of microbes in seawater samples \u2013 including 230 giant viruses previously unknown to science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying these viruses is a crucial part of understanding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-find-a-whole-new-ecosystem-hiding-beneath-earths-seafloor\">life in the ocean<\/a>, and in particular the survival of marine organisms known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protist\">protists<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 including algae, amoeba, and flagellates.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"H qP   irA e\">H qP   irA e<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Alert Scientists have just discovered hundreds of new giant&nbsp;viruses, in a comprehensive study covering oceans across the globe. The team behind the study, marine biologist Benjamin Minch and virologist Mohammad Moniruzzaman from the University of Miami, used bespoke computer software to identify the&nbsp;genomes&nbsp;of microbes in seawater samples \u2013 including 230 giant viruses previously unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}