In fly DNA, the footprint of a fly virus

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 13:02 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) -- In a curious evolutionary twist, several species of a commonly studied fruit fly appear to have incorporated genetic material from a virus into their genomes, according to new research by University at Buffalo biologists.

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