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Transcriptome mining reveals diversity and evolution of circulating and endogenous amphibian retroviruses.
Retrovirology - 10 Dec 2025
Harding Emma F, Webster Banjo, Sridhar Tanu, Mercer Lewis K, White Peter A
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BACKGROUND: The evolutionary history of retroviruses and their impact on vertebrate evolution remains poorly understood, particularly in non-mammalian hosts. In this study, we explore retroviruses associated with Amphibia through analysis of 169 RNA sequencing datasets from 102 amphibian species. Using a BLAST-based approach, we identified retroviral transcripts from assembled transcriptomes and phylogenetically...
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