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Polintons, virophages and transpovirons: a tangled web linking viruses, transposons and immunity.

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Published in 2017 at "Current opinion in virology"

DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2017.06.008

Abstract: Virophages are satellite DNA viruses that depend for their replication on giant viruses of the family Mimiviridae. An evolutionary relationship exists between the virophages and Polintons, large self-synthesizing transposons that are wide spread in the… read more here.

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