First high-res look at microbial ballistics: Harpoons, spears, Gatling guns
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Bacteriophages have terrifying-looking injection ports [2]. And there are other viral 'latch-like' proteins that do significant damage to host membranes when deployed in order to permit their own payloads to be deposited.
The entire CRISPR system is a defensive homing weapon used to literally dice up a virus's DNA were any of the above weapons successfully used to enter a cell.