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TWiV 105: Finches score again

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #105 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review eradication of rinderpest, endogenous hepatitis B virus in the zebra finch genome, and identification of the cell receptor for an extinct retrovirus. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV105.mp3″] Click the arrow above to …

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Bornavirus DNA in the mammalian genome

The chromosomal DNA of several mammals has been found to contain sequences related to the nucleoprotein (N) gene of bornaviruses, enveloped viruses with a negative-strand RNA genome. I am amazed by this finding. How did bornaviral DNA get in our chromosomes, and what is it doing there? A search of the human genome sequence revealed DNA …

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