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*led* goddammit.
Archaea are the hornets of the microbial world. Discuss.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
TLDR: Archaeon kills bacterium with secreted phospholipase. Pretty nifty way to kill bacteria for a microbe with a very different lipid make-up, I reckon. No need to worry about accidentally killing yourself.
The public get to vote? I guess it’s a straight shoot out between Dietmar Hamann and Creature McCreatureface.