A Missing Link between Retrotransposons and Retroviruses

Autor: Jianhua Wang, Guan-Zhu Han
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: mBio. 13
ISSN: 2150-7511
Popis: The origin and deep evolution of retroviruses remain largely unclear. It has been proposed that retroviruses might have originated from a Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposon, but all known Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons are only distantly related to retroviruses. Retroviruses and some plant Athila/Tat elements (within Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons) independently evolved a dual RNase H domain and an
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