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Marine biology 海洋生物 Flea market 跳蚤市场 A newly discovered virus may be the mostabundant organism on the planet 一种新发现的病毒可能是地球上最丰富的物种。 WHAT is the commonest living thing on Earth? 地球上最常见的生物是什么? Until now, those in the know would probably have answered Pelagibacter ubique, the mostsuccessful member of a group of bacteria, called SAR11, that jointly constitute about athird of the single-celled organisms in the ocean. 直到现在，那些很专业的人可能会说是遍在远洋杆菌细菌群中最成功的细菌，称为大洋微小细菌,占了海洋单细胞有机体的三分之一。 But this is not P. ubique s only claimto fame, for unlike almost every other known cellular creature, it and its relatives haveseemed to be untroubled by viruses. 但是，这不是它成名的原因，因为它和它的亲戚不像其它大部分已知的细胞生物，它们似乎是些不会给你造成麻烦的一族。 As Jonathan Swift put it in a much-misquoted poem, So, naturalists observe, a flea/Hathsmaller fleas that on him prey. 就像乔纳森-斯威福特的一首诗表达的一样虽然这里引用很不贴切，所以，博物学家们观察，正在捕食的跳蚤/小跳蚤们。 | 
