TFR1, HOST HOUSEKEEPING GENE. “While infectious disease research has long focused on host antiviral proteins, host proteins that facilitate viral replication are now an exploding area of inquiry. Essential housekeeping genes like TFR1 successfully balance the opposing selective pressures exerted by host and virus…TFR1 evolution in rodents has been shaped by two separate host-virus arms races.”
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