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Horizontal gene transfer events reshape the global landscape of arm race between viruses and homo sapiens
7 Jun 2016
Abstract excerpt
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) drives the evolution of recipient organism particularly if it provides a novel function which enhances the fitness or its adaption to the environment. Virus-host co-evolution is attractive for studying co-evolutionary processes, since viruses strictly replicate inside of the host cells and thus their evolution is inexorably tangled with host biology. HGT, as a mechanism of...
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