Living on the edge of parasite inevitability

Living on the edge of parasite inevitability




All life forms on Earth harbor an array of genetic parasites, including viruses, plasmids, and transposons. Unfortunately, if cells could reduce their uptake of these elements, they would suffer as the entry of beneficial genes would be impaired (link to paper). In other words, genetic parasites are unavoidable. A genetic parasite is defined as a […]





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