Extended Data Fig. 6: Viral infection of Ca. Endonucleobacter cells. | Nature Microbiology

Extended Data Fig. 6: Viral infection of Ca. Endonucleobacter cells.

From: An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host

Extended Data Fig. 6

‘Ca. E. childressi’ had structures typical for viruses in their cells. (a), TEM image of G. childressi gill cell showing a nucleus infected by ‘Ca. E. childressi’ that is filled with structures resembling icosahedral viral capsids. (b), Higher magnification of rectangle in (a) showing the putative viral capsids inside ‘Ca. E. childressi’ cells. As we wrote in our manuscript, we did find OsHV-1 sequences (17% of the genome) in a library from a single Bathymodiolus individual. However, we obviously cannot show that these sequences originated from the virus-like particles we observed in our TEM images.

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