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Endogenous viral elements in animal genomes.
PLoS genetics - 18 Nov 2010
Katzourakis Aris, Gifford Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Integration into the nuclear genome of germ line cells can lead to vertical inheritance of retroviral genes as host alleles. For other viruses, germ line integration has only rarely been documented. Nonetheless, we identified endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from ten non-retroviral families by systematic in silico screening of animal genomes, including the first endogenous representatives of...
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