Pushing the envelope.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 28406395.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.26397 and PMC identifier 5391202.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Endogenous Retroviruses
- Evolution, Molecular
- Extinction, Biological
- Primates