Satellite

Rarity: Common

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What Wikipedia says

A satellite is a subviral agent that depends on the coinfection of a host cell with a helper virus for its replication. Satellites can be divided into two major groups: satellite viruses and satellite nucleic acids.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Satellite (biology)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Tagide deCarvalho, Elia Mascolo, Steven M. Caruso, Júlia López-Pérez, Kathleen Weston-Hafer, Christopher Shaffer, Ivan Erill, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.