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What's the difference between these mavericks and prions?
by personjerry 3y ago
What's the difference between these mavericks and prions?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoPrions are proteins, not DNA. (There's probably other differences too...)
- otherme123 3y agoMavericks are well known transposons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polinton), and as other transposons suspected since long ago to jump between species: things like fragments of DNA in specie A very similar to specie B embedded in a transposon sequence, while specie A and B diverged long ago. The novelty of this paper is the authors actually found the transposons jumping and carrying info between species.