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The decline of human endogenous retroviruses: extinction and survival

BACKGROUND: Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) are retroviruses that over the course of evolution have integrated into germline cells and eventually become part of the host genome. They proliferate within the germline of their host, making up ~5% of the human and mouse genome sequences. Several lines of...

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Autores principales: Magiorkinis, Gkikas, Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Belshaw, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25640971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12977-015-0136-x