Pandoravirus sediments. Pandoraviruses, like other marine viruses, prey on plankton, which are organisms that live in the water column and form the basis of the food chain for other marine species. More study and research needs to be done in order to confirm the prevalence of Pandoraviruses in different environments. Currently, not much is known about their role in marine ecosystems. Pandoraviruses do have approximately 93% of their genes that are unidentifiable with any other microbes, suggesting they may belong to an as of yet undescribed "fourth domain" aside from Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes. Viruses as a whole are not popularly
Anthropology of food of food anthropology" for his work "Sweetness and Power (1985)," which linked British demand for sugar with the creation of empire and exploitative industrial labor conditions. Research has traced the material and symbolic importance of food, as well as how they intersect. Examples of ongoing themes are food as a form of differentiation, commensality, and food's role in industrialization and globalizing labor and commodity chains. Several related and interdisciplinary academic programs exist in the US and UK (listed under Food studies institutions). Anthropology of food Anthropology of food is a sub-discipline of anthropology that connects an ethnographic and historical perspective