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

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 18:01 in Biology & Nature

Retroviruses are important pathogens, which have attacked vertebrate hosts for millions of years. Researchers now provide new knowledge about the long-term interactions of retroviruses and their hosts by analyzing endogenous retroviruses , retroviruses whose genes have become part of the host organism's genome.

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