New essay: "The Landlord" — Krupovic and Koonin argue the ribosome isn't the cell's production facility. The cell is the ribosome's survival strategy. Translation consumes 50%+ of a bacterial cell's energy. No virus in 4 billion years has evolved its own ribosome. The landlord stays; the tenants rotate.

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