Giant viruses act as factories for inventing new genes

Thread starter Brian G Turner
Start date Jun 13, 2018

Brian G Turner

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Jun 13, 2018

A somewhat strange news story - effectively, strains of giant viruses not only have incredibly complex and unique genes, but they may also be randomly creating new ones:

Pandoravirus: Giant viruses invent their own genes

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