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TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts

This Week in Evolution

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The Host Origins of Insertions

Virus has a certain number of letters, r and a, letters, 30 thousand or so. The base pair is changing or mutating as the virus replicates. There's some good evidence for crono viruss that on occasion, it's the host itself providing u letters to the virus. A little help from your hosts is maybe one way of saying it here, u. And in some cases, it's actually other corono virises. So this is pretty interesting, because if that's true, and no, you know, a little bit of a caviot here.

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