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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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Published in:Retrovirology
Main Authors: Magiorkinis, Gkikas, Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Belshaw, Robert
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335370/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25640971
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12977-015-0136-x
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