Researchers find 19 million-year-old genomic fossils of hepatitis B-like viruses in songbirds
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington have uncovered virus fragments from the same family as the modern Hepatitis B virus locked inside the genomes of songbirds such as the modern-day zebra finch.