by chromas on (#4YDH3)
RandomFactor writes:Previously collected ice cores taken from a Tibetan glacier have revealed 28 new genera of viruses according to researchers from Ohio State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.A genus (plural genera) in biology encompasses multiple species. For example, Lions and Tigers (not bears) belong to the genus PantheraThe ice cores had not been protected from surface contamination when collected from the Guliya ice cap (northwestern Tibetan Plateau, China), so it was first necessary to establish "ultra-clean microbial and viral sampling procedures for glacier ice."