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Criss-crossing viruses give rise to peculiar hybrid variants – Phys.org
For millions of years, viruses have participated in a far-flung, import-export business, exchanging fragments of themselves with both viral and non-viral agents…
For millions of years, viruses have participated in a far-flung, import-export business, exchanging fragments of themselves with both viral and non-viral agents and acquiring new features. What these tiny entities lack in outward complexity, they make up for with their astonishing abilities to swap out modular genomic components and ceaselessly reinvent themselves.
In new research appearing in the journal mBio, Arvind Varsani and his colleagues investigate a recently discovered class of viruses…
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