Fig. 3: Overview of the strategies employed by different protist life forms to resist stress factors, such as virus infection. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Overview of the strategies employed by different protist life forms to resist stress factors, such as virus infection.

From: The consequences of viral infection on protists

Fig. 3

a Upon interaction with viruses, the cocolithophore E. huxleyi shifts to a life form that is resistant to infection195. b Amoebae encyst under unfavorable conditions, and the cysts formed are not able to be infected by a virus206. c Under unfavorable conditions Chaetoceros socialis cells transform into resting spores that are unable to produce infectious viral particles114,194,225. Red text: Cellular resistance strategies after stress exposure.

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