More Viruses in Your Genes

For over a decade we've known that a certain family of viruses--retroviruses--has left remnants in our genome. However, a recent survey has found that this phenomenon extends to a much broader collection of viral families. Although new in its extent, this is not all that surprising when you consider what a jumble of chemical reactions occur in the cell.

For more, see the summaries by these Discover Magazine bloggers:

Carl Zimmer - Your inner viruses: the trickle becomes the flood

Ed Yong - I am virus – animal genomes contain more fossil viruses than ever expected

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