New knowledge about host-virus coevolution unmasked from the genomic record

Retroviruses are important pathogens, which have attacked vertebrate hosts for millions of years. Researchers from Uppsala University and Lund University, now provide new knowledge about the long-term interactions of retroviruses and their hosts by analyzing endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), retroviruses whose genes have become part of the host organism's genome. The findings are now being published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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