Microbe with tiny genome may be evolving into a virus (2025)

(2025) It has been discussed a few times. It's just a tiny bacteria. In any way becoming a virus. Moreover, it's quite common. Discussion of a similar post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957157 (163 points | 9 months ago | 73 comments)

My takeaway from a comment by Ultimatt:

> [...] This isn't some new miracle find this is a well described and growing phylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobdellota Having genome reduced symbionts of dinoflagellates is an even more common and general phenomena, it's almost the definition of a dino to have a weird zoo of peculiar friends and things becoming endo symbionts. This finding is definitely cool, but I don't understand why the article has to make out its a "breakthrough" or "astounding" rather than actually the more astounding thing is how normal this very weird thing is!