One Hundred Twenty Years of Koala Retrovirus Evolution Determined from Museum Skins

One Hundred Twenty Years of Koala Retrovirus Evolution Determined from Museum Skins

Although endogenous retroviruses are common across vertebrate genomes, the koala retrovirus (KoRV) is the only retrovirus known to be currently invading the germ line of its host. KoRV is believed to have first infected koalas in northern Australia less than two centuries ago. We examined KoRV in 28...

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Main Authors: Avila-Arcos, M., Ho, S., Ishida, Y., Nikolaidis, N., Tsangaras, K., Honig, K., Medina, R., Rasmussen, M., Fordyce, S., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Willerslev, E., Gilbert, Thomas, Helgen, K., Roca, A., Greenwood, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford Univ Press 2013
Subjects:
receptor-binding
sequence
protein
leukemia-virus
KoRV
endogenous retroviruses
ancient DNA
genome
Phascolarctos cinereus
Online Access:http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/2/299.full.pdf+html?sid=fdfdecf9-8b7d-487f-94ed-82613915e5c5
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12304

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http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/2/299.full.pdf+html?sid=fdfdecf9-8b7d-487f-94ed-82613915e5c5
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12304

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