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Larger Mammalian Body Size Leads to Lower Retroviral Activity

Retroviruses have been infecting mammals for at least 100 million years, leaving descendants in host genomes known as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). The abundance of ERVs is partly determined by their mode of replication, but it has also been suggested that host life history traits could enhance or...

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Autores principales: Katzourakis, Aris, Magiorkinis, Gkikas, Lim, Aaron G., Gupta, Sunetra, Belshaw, Robert, Gifford, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25033295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004214