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Why genes overlap in viruses
The genomes of most virus species have overlapping genes—two or more proteins coded for by the same nucleotide sequence. Several explanations have been proposed for the evolution of this phenomenon, and we test these by comparing the amount of gene overlap in all known virus species. We conclude tha...
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The Royal Society
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20610432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1052 |