本研究深入剖析了小鼠内源性逆转录病毒（ERVs）的分布、进化及与宿主的相互作用，揭示了其在小鼠基因组中的动态变化及潜在适应性机制。 内源性逆转录病毒（ERVs）是整合到宿主染色体中的病毒基因组副本，它们在哺乳动物基因组中占据了相当大的比例，并 ...

Around 8 percent of our genetic code stems from HERVs, the bulk of which integrated during primate evolution. Current research suggests that viral hitchhikers in human DNA may play roles in cancer, ...

You are more viral than you think. About 8% of your DNA—far more than is used to build proteins—is made of ancient viruses.

HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome ... previously unknown functions for these ancient viral genes and better help researchers understand how the human body ...

Over millions of years of evolution, most retrotransposons ... A rare group of retrotransposons, called endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), can still jump. “These evolutionarily young ...

What if parts of our personality—our capacity for fear, bonding, caregiving, and even symbolic meaning—are influenced not only by evolution ... may lie in endogenous retroviruses (ERVs ...

Our research focuses on the regulation of mammalian transposable elements, which have played a major role in genome evolution. We aim to elucidate the impact that transposable ... “Regulation of human ...