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A parasite's parasite saves host's neighbours

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Viruses can be attacked by parasitic viruses, which compete with them for cellular resources. It emerges that one such parasitic virus can defend a host-cell population from a viral attack. See Letter p.288

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Figure 1: A parasitic virus can protect a host-cell population from viral attack.

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  1. Eugene V. Koonin is at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.,

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  2. Mart Krupovic is in the Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France.,

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