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#INKTOBERDAY25 - Prickly
#Viruses can look like they're prickly because of their coat proteins. Most viruses have coat proteins, which form a #capsid that protects their #genome and/or bind to host cells during infection.
#Inktober2018 #sciart #microbiology

#inktoberday24 - Chop
#Bluetongue #virus causes a disease in #sheep, which gives them swollen blue tongues. I'm not making that up! It can also cause abortions and has a high fatality rate in lambs. Less lamb chops - sad times.
#Inktober2018 #sciart #microbiology #scicomm

#inktoberday20 - Breakable
In 17th century Netherlands, a #virus caused crazy speculation in the sale of stripey tulip bulbs, as the stripes weren't always stable. They didn't know that Tulip breaking virus #infection is what makes #tulips stripey.
#Inktober #microbiology #sciart

#inktoberday18 - Bottle
Acidianus bottle-shaped #virus 1 is (unsurprisingly) bottle shaped! It infects #archaea & was found in an acidic hot spring. Its genome encodes 57 potential proteins, only 3 of which are similar to known proteins.
#Inktober2018 #inktober #microbiology

#inktoberday15 – Weak
In ~1% of #Poliovirus infections, the #virus causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Since the widespread chlorination of drinking water, the age of exposure to Poliovirus has increased, increasing the risk of paralysis.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart

#inktoberday14 - Clock
Many physiological processes are affected by our body clocks, or circadian rhythms, including immunity. Some #viruses are able to detect or alter these rhythms to initiate infection at times of lowered immunity.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart

#inktoberday12 – Whale
Pithovirus sibericum is a whale of a #virus at 1.5um long – it’s bigger than some bacteria and can be seen under a light microscope! It was found intact within a 30k yr old Siberian ice core and can still infect amoebas.
#inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart

#InktoberDay3 - Roasted.
Desert water environments are dominated by particular kinds of #bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), presumably because they can handle the roasting environment and drying out better than other #viruses.
#Inktober2018 #microbiology #sciart

The @StudioTeaBreak Wednesday #ShapeChallenge made me think of #conidia - fungal spores, named after the Greek word for dust...
#sciart #microbiology #fungi

Meet Elewa, the scientist in the #comic #wip for @roslininstitute called #MoreMilkZuri - she's helping Zuri the cow find the right bull for her, using #livestock #Genetics in #EastAfrica
#SciComm #sciart #Science #womeninSTEM