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Could it be a genetic parasite?
by dash2 5y ago
Could it be a genetic parasite?
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoDoesn't that go just a turtle deeper?
- f6v 5y agoThe genome is full of retrovirus remnants, so there’s a way for a parasite to piggyback on the host genome. Alu repeats in human genome are one such example. But there’s a hypothesis that these get “domesticated” by the genome and start serving a function.
- quotemstr 5y agoOne conserved over the whole tree of life? That's like imagining an editing bug that Emacs and Vim have both carefully and inexplicably preserved from the last universal common text editor.