Larger mammalian body size leads to lower retroviral activity.

Retroviruses have been infecting mammals for at least 100 million years, leaving descendants in host genomes known as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). The abundance of ERVs is partly determined by their mode of replication, but it has also been suggested that host life history traits could enhance or...

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Main Authors: Aris Katzourakis, Gkikas Magiorkinis, Aaron G Lim, Sunetra Gupta, Robert Belshaw, Robert Gifford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004214
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