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Repurposing of retroviral genes: when foe becomes self

The genomes of all organisms are constantly under attack from a variety of sources, including the everyday effects of solar and ionising radiation together with chemical and oxidative insults. However, there are also more specific threats to our genomes like those that posed through invasion... click to read more

Ian A. Taylor | Senior Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Jonathan P. Stoye | Senior Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

evolution

Retrovirus

Exaptation

ARC

Gag

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 23, 2020

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