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Tag: retrotransposon

TWiV 485: Fishing with defective flies

  • March 18, 2018

The TWiV posse considers viral insulin-like peptides encoded in fish genomes, and antiviral immunity in insects by production of viral DNA from defective genomes of RNA viruses.

TWiV 477: Raiders of the lost Arc

  • January 21, 2018

The TWiVodrome explains how a gag-like protein from a retrotransposon forms virus-like particles that carry mRNA  within vesicles across the synapse.

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