Wallabies and bats harbour 'fossil' genes from the most deadly family of human viruses
Saturday, July 3, 2010 - 04:42
in Biology & Nature
Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbour a 'fossil' copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers and are the most lethal viruses known to humans...