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I love those virus shapes. They always fascinated my as a kid in science class.

[-] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

it's wild how they just look like little guys, how did that happen

[-] ValpoYAFF@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

The "legs" grab onto bacterial cell membranes to insert the central stalk like a syringe. It is a specialised adaptation to parisitism of a specific kind of host, which is observed in many advanced obligate parasites. This kind of specialisation results from many generations of co-evolution.

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