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Endogenous Viral Elements in Ixodid Tick Genomes [PDF]

Viruses, 2023
The documentation of endogenous viral elements (EVEs; virus-derived genetic material integrated into the genome of a nonviral host) has offered insights into how arthropods respond to viral infection via RNA interference pathways.
Miranda Barnes, Dana C. Price
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How infectious diseases arrived in the colonial Americas [PDF]

eLife, 2021
Analysis of viral DNA from human remains suggests that the transatlantic slave trade may have introduced new pathogens that contributed to the devastating disease outbreaks in colonial Mexico.
Ville N Pimenoff, Charlotte J Houldcroft
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CAULIFINDER: a pipeline for the automated detection and annotation of caulimovirid endogenous viral elements in plant genomes [PDF]

Mobile DNA, 2022
Plant, animal and protist genomes often contain endogenous viral elements (EVEs), which correspond to partial and sometimes entire viral genomes that have been captured in the genome of their host organism through a variety of integration mechanisms ...
Héléna Vassilieff, Sana Haddad, Véronique Jamilloux, Nathalie Choisne, Vikas Sharma, Delphine Giraud, Mariène Wan, Saad Serfraz, Andrew D. W. Geering, Pierre-Yves Teycheney, Florian Maumus   +10 more
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Antiviral Activity of an Endogenous Parvoviral Element [PDF]

Viruses, 2023
Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are genomic DNA sequences derived from viruses. Some EVEs have open reading frames (ORFs) that can express proteins with physiological roles in their host.
Angelica Bravo, Leandro Fernández-García, Rodrigo Ibarra-Karmy, Gonzalo A. Mardones, Luis Mercado, Fernando J. Bustos, Robert J. Gifford, Gloria Arriagada   +7 more
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An endogenous lentivirus in the germline of a rodent [PDF]

Retrovirology, 2022
Lentiviruses (genus Lentivirus) are complex retroviruses that infect a broad range of mammals, including humans. Unlike many other retrovirus genera, lentiviruses have only rarely been incorporated into the mammalian germline.
Roziah Kambol, Anna Gatseva, Robert J. Gifford   +2 more
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Pushing the envelope [PDF]

eLife, 2017
Primates have co-opted a viral gene to produce an envelope protein that prevents infection by the HERV-T virus and likely contributed to the extinction of this virus.
Julia H Wildschutte, John M Coffin
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The mongoose, the pheasant, the pox, and the retrovirus. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2013
Paleovirology is the study of ancient viruses. The existence of a paleovirus can sometimes be detected by virtue of its accidental insertion into the germline of different animal species, which allows one to date when the virus actually existed. However,
Lucie Etienne, Michael Emerman
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Retro-age: A unique epigenetic biomarker of aging captured by DNA methylation states of retroelements. [PDF]

Aging Cell
This study reports that locus‐specific retroelement DNA methylation states can be used to create unique retroelement‐based epigenetic clocks that accurately measure chronological age in the immune system, across human tissues, and pan‐mammalian species.
Ndhlovu LC, Bendall ML, Dwaraka V, Pang APS, Dopkins N, Carreras N, Smith R, Nixon DF, Corley MJ.   +8 more
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Tracking the Continuous Evolutionary Processes of an Endogenous Retrovirus of the Domestic Cat: ERV-DC [PDF]

Viruses, 2018
An endogenous retrovirus (ERV) is a remnant of an ancient retroviral infection in the host genome. Although most ERVs have lost their viral productivity, a few ERVs retain their replication capacity.
Junna Kawasaki, Kazuo Nishigaki
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Paleovirology--modern consequences of ancient viruses. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2010
Michael Emerman, Harmit S Malik
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