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TWiV 472: The riddle of the skinks

December 17, 2017
Tagged as: endogenous retrovirus, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, exaptation, Mabuya lizard, membrane, membrane fusion, mutant, placenta, poxvirus, poxvirus crescent, retrovirus, syncytin, syncytiotrophoblast, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiV team reveal the origin of the poxvirus membrane, and how a retrovirus drove the development of the placenta of a lizard.

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