[News Release] Viruses on glaciers highlight evolutionary mechanism to overcome host defenses

Wed, 2 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

An international team of scientists led by Christopher Bellas from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, studying life on the surface of glaciers in the Arctic and Alps challenge assumptions on virus evolution. Their study, now published in the journal Nature Communications shows that, contrary to expectations, the viruses on glaciers in the Alps, Greenland and Spitsbergen are remarkably stable in the environment.