Positive selection of Iris, a retroviral envelope-derived host gene in Drosophila melanogaster.
Eukaryotic genomes can usurp enzymatic functions encoded by mobile elements for their own use. A particularly interesting kind of acquisition involves the domestication of retroviral envelope genes, which confer infectious membrane-fusion ability to retroviruses. So far, these examples have been lim...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-10-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1262188?pdf=render |