Month: September 2022

NEW PARADIGM. "The persistence of virus derived information matters in a big way that affects group identity. This perspective represents a major adjustment to our thinking." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

VIRAL DEFENDERS. "The colonized host must retain persisting viruses (or defectives) in order to survive in the omnipresent virosphere and also to be able to kill competing but uncolonized host. It is important to note that this is a main underlying mechanism of host cell group identity. This concept would seem to suggest a deep importance as to why prokaryotes, for example, must retain cryptic virus information." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

"VIRUSES and virus-derived parts represent the most abundant genetic information on the planet overrepresenting cellular genetic information ten times." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

VAST NUMBERS. "If we ignore eukaryotes and only consider prokaryotic life, we have a number of prokaryote viruses of 10(31), which means if we line up the length of their virions, we get 40 million light years." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER. "The visible living world of organisms of all domains is literarily the tip of the iceberg surrounded by biology’s viral ‘‘dark matter’’ of which we are currently scratching the surface at best." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

FEW NEEDED. "Importantly, a key feature of this viral lifestyle is that only few need to remain as functional agents, such as mammalian endogenous retroviruses needed for in the syncytia, which regulates mammalian pregnancy. Here, a much larger number of retroviral-derived code (LTRs) are providing the regulatory network of the placenta." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

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COOPERATING VIRUSES. "The second but not less important point is that viruses can co-operate, that is they interact to build groups that invade host genomes and even compete as a group for limited resources such as host genomes." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

DEFECTIVE PARASITES. "In most cases, parts of infectious agents remain as defectives some known as LTRs, non-LTRs, SINEs, LINEs, and Alu’s which are later on co-adapted for cellular needs such as regulation tools in all steps and fine-tuned substeps of cellular functions such as, e.g., transcription, translation, epigenetics, repair, and immunity." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn

VIRAL SOCIAL MEDIA. "In contrast to traditional and linear thinking, all these features (group identity, addiction modules, regulatory complexity, network emergence, host–virus ecology, and host–host competition) are fundamentally interlinked and consortial. They are inherently network phenomena." https://lnkd.in/eWydwab View in LinkedIn