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Positive selection of Iris, a retroviral envelope-derived host gene in Drosophila melanogaster.
PLoS genetics - 1 Oct 2005
Malik Harmit S, Henikoff Steven
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic genomes can usurp enzymatic functions encoded by mobile elements for their own use. A particularly interesting kind of acquisition involves the domestication of retroviral envelope genes, which confer infectious membrane-fusion ability to retroviruses. So far, these examples have been...
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