Unexpected Discovery and Expression of Amphibian Class II Endogenous Retroviruses.

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Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are the remnants of past retroviral infections. Fossil records of class II retroviruses have been discovered in a range of vertebrates, with the exception of amphibians, which are known only to possess class I and class III-like ERVs. Through genomic mining of all available amphibian genomes, we identified, for the first time, class II ERVs in amphibians. The class II ERVs were...

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