“POLINTONS: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution. Polintons (also known as Mavericks) are large DNA transposons that are widespread in the genomes of eukaryotes. We have recently shown that Polintons encode virus capsid proteins, which suggests that these transposons might form virions, at least under some conditions.”
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