VIRAL FOSSILS. “Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) proliferate by the repeated integration of new viral sequences into their host’s germline, integrations which can become fixed in the host population and have led to ERV sequences (loci) comprising 8–10% of the human and mouse genomes.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/19/7385
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022