Paleovirology and virally derived immunity.

Journal article

Paleovirology, the study of viruses on evolutionary timescales, can exploit information from endogenous viral elements (EVEs), which are the result of heritable horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from viruses to hosts. The availability of genomic data has increased opportunities to study EVEs, and bioinformatics techniques have been crucial in cataloguing EVE diversity and taxonomic coverage. Recent advances show that some EVEs have been co-opted as cellular genes, often as inhibitors of viral in...

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Authors: Aswad, A; Katzourakis, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Trends in ecology and evolution
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 627-636
• Publication date: 2012-11-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.007
• EISSN: 1872-8383
• ISSN: 0169-5347
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Genome; Humans; Biological Evolution; Viruses; Gene Transfer, Horizontal; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Virus Diseases; Immunity