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Paleogenomic record of the extinction of human endogenous retrovirus ERV9.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2005
López-Sánchez Paula, Costas Javier C, Naveira Horacio F
Abstract excerpt
An outstanding question of genome evolution is what stops the invasion of a host genome by transposable elements (TEs). The human genome, harboring the remnants of many extinct TE families, offers an extraordinary opportunity to investigate this problem. ERV9 is an endogenous retrovirus repeatedly mobilized during primate evolution, 15 to 6 million years ago (MYA), which left a trace of over a hundred...
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