Genetic 'Fossils' Reveal Long-Term Viral Partnerships in Grass (IMAGE)

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Genetic 'Fossils' Reveal Long-Term Viral Partnerships in Grass

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To complete the life cycles, defective pararetrovirus species have evolved to form partnerships which are maintained by frequent exchanges of their noncoding regulatory sequences (NRSs).

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Sunlu Chen & Yuji Kishima

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