Rippei Hayashi

Pre-Cambrian origin of envelope-carrying retrotransposons in metazoans

Retrotransposons or endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) essentially carry open reading frames of gag and pol, which are utilized to selfishly replicate themselves in the host germline genome. One rare example of ERVs that additionally carry envelope genes is Ty3/gypsy errantiviruses i...