Thursday, January 07, 2010

 

Another source of useful variation

"Traces of genetic material from non-retroviruses have unexpectedly turned up in the genomes of several mammal species, including humans." See commentary @ The Scientist. The actual report:

Horie1, M. et al [2010]. "Endogenous non-retroviral RNA virus elements in mammalian genomes". Nature 463, 84-87.



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