Article
Comprehensive genomic analysis reveals dynamic evolution of endogenous retroviruses that code for retroviral-like protein domains
2019-05-07
Abstract excerpt
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are remnants of ancient retroviral infections of mammalian germline cells. A large proportion of ERVs lose their open reading frames (ORFs), while others retain them and become exapted by the host species. However, it remains unclear what proportion of ERVs possess ORFs (ERV-ORFs), become transcribed, and serve as candidates for co-opted genes. Hence, we investigated characteristics...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6cf76517-adb7-5475-a354-9ffa31f5894d
- DOI
- 10.1101/628875
