Evolution: Zapping viral RNAs.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The discovery that the host defence protein ZAP specifically targets viral RNAs that are rich in a particular pair of adjacent bases — cytosine followed by guanine — sheds light on the evolution of viral RNA genomes.