Retrovirus endógeno (Spanish Wikipedia)

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van de Lagemaat LN, Landry JR, Mager DL, Medstrand P (Oct 2003). «Transposable elements in mammals promote regulatory variation and diversification of genes with specialized functions». Trends Genet 19 (10): 530-6. PMID 14550626. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2003.08.004.
Gogvadze E, Stukacheva E, Buzdin A, Sverdlov E (2009). «Human-specific modulation of transcriptional activity provided by endogenous retroviral insertions». J Virol 83 (12): 6098-105. PMC 2687385. PMID 19339349. doi:10.1128/JVI.00123-09.
Ting CN, Rosenberg MP, Snow CM, Samuelson LC, Meisler MH (1992). «Endogenous retroviral sequences are required for tissue-specific expression of a human salivary amylase gene». Genes Dev 6 (8): 1457-1465. PMID 1379564. doi:10.1101/gad.6.8.1457.
Belshaw R, Dawson AL, Woolven-Allen J, Redding J, Burt A, Tristem M (Oct 2005). «Genomewide Screening Reveals High Levels of Insertional Polymorphism in the Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family HERV-K(HML2): Implications for Present-Day Activity». J Virol. 79 (19): 12507-14. PMC 1211540. PMID 16160178. doi:10.1128/JVI.79.19.12507-12514.2005.

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Fox D (2010). «The Insanity Virus». Discover. Consultado el 17 de febrero de 2011.

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Belshaw R, Pereira V, Katzourakis A, Talbot G, Paces J, Burt A, Tristem M (Apr 2004). «Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses». Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101 (14): 4894-99. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.4894B. PMC 387345. PMID 15044706. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307800101.
Nelson PN; Hooley P; Roden D; Davari Ejtehadi H; Rylance P; Warren P; Martin J; Murray PG (October 2004). «Human endogenous retroviruses: Transposable elements with potential ?». Clinical and Experimental Immunology 138 (138(1)): 1-9. PMC 1809191. PMID 15373898. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02592.x. Consultado el 1 de febrero de 2014.
Khodosevich, Konstantin; Lebedev, L; Sverdolv, E. (October 2002). «Endogenous retroviruses and human evolution». Comparative and Functional Genomics 3 (3): 494-98. doi:10.1002/cfg.216.
Li J, Akagi K, Hu Y, Trivett AL, Hlynialuk CJ, Swing DA, Volfovsky N, Morgan TC, Golubeva Y, Stephens RM, Smith DE, Symer DE (Mar 2012). «Mouse endogenous retroviruses can trigger premature transcriptional termination at a distance». Genome Res 22 (5): 870-84. PMC 3337433. PMID 22367191. doi:10.1101/gr.130740.111.
Spencer TE, Palmarini M (2012). «Endogenous retroviruses of sheep: a model system for understanding physiological adaptation to an evolving ruminant genome». J Reprod Dev 58 (1): 33-7. PMID 22450282. doi:10.1262/jrd.2011-026.
Black SG, Arnaud F, Palmarini M, Spencer TE (2010). «Endogenous Retroviruses in Trophoblast Differentiation and Placental Development». American Journal of Reproductive Immunology 64 (4): 255-264. PMID 20528833. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00860.x.
Ryan FP (December 2004). «Human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease: a symbiotic perspective». Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 97 (12): 560-5. PMC 1079666. PMID 15574851. doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.560.
Pi W, Zhu X, Wu M, Wang Y, Fulzele S, Eroglu A, Ling J, Tuan D (July 2010). «Long-range function of an intergenic retrotransposon». PNAS 107 (29): 12992-12997. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10712992P. PMC 2919959. PMID 20615953. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004139107.
van de Lagemaat LN, Landry JR, Mager DL, Medstrand P (Oct 2003). «Transposable elements in mammals promote regulatory variation and diversification of genes with specialized functions». Trends Genet 19 (10): 530-6. PMID 14550626. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2003.08.004.
Kovalskaya E, Buzdin A, Gogvadze E, Vinogradova T, Sverdlov E (2006). «Functional human endogenous retroviral LTR transcription start sites are located between the R and U5 regions». Virology 346 (2): 373-8. PMID 16337666. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2005.11.007.
Dunn CA, Romanish MT, Gutierrez LE, van de Lagemaat LN, Mager DL (2006). «Transcription of two human genes from a bidirectional endogenous retrovirus promoter». Gene 366 (2): 335-42. PMID 16288839. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.09.003.
Gogvadze E, Stukacheva E, Buzdin A, Sverdlov E (2009). «Human-specific modulation of transcriptional activity provided by endogenous retroviral insertions». J Virol 83 (12): 6098-105. PMC 2687385. PMID 19339349. doi:10.1128/JVI.00123-09.
Ting CN, Rosenberg MP, Snow CM, Samuelson LC, Meisler MH (1992). «Endogenous retroviral sequences are required for tissue-specific expression of a human salivary amylase gene». Genes Dev 6 (8): 1457-1465. PMID 1379564. doi:10.1101/gad.6.8.1457.
Cohen CJ, Lock WM, Mager DL (2009). «Endogenous retroviral LTRs as promoters for human genes: a critical assessment». Gene 448 (2): 105-14. PMID 19577618. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2009.06.020.
Bekpen C, Marques-Bonet T, Alkan C, Antonacci F, Leogrande MB, Ventura M, Kidd JM, Siswara P, Howard JC, Eichler EE (2009). «Death and resurrection of the human IRGM gene». PLoS Genet 5 (3): e1000403. PMC 2644816. PMID 19266026. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000403.
Jern P, Coffin JM (2008). «Effects of Retroviruses on Host Genome Function». Annu Rev Genet 42: 709-32. PMID 18694346. doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.42.110807.091501.
Oliver KR, Greene WK (2011). «Mobile DNA and the TE-Thrust hypothesis: supporting evidence from the primates». Mob DNA 2 (1): 8. PMC 3123540. PMID 21627776. doi:10.1186/1759-8753-2-8.
Romanish MT, Lock WM, van de Lagemaat LN, Dunn CA, Mager DL (2007). «Repeated recruitment of LTR retrotransposons as promoters by the anti- apoptotic locus NAIP during mammalian evolution». PLoS Genet 3 (1): e10. PMC 1781489. PMID 17222062. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030010.
Huh JW, Ha HS, Kim DS, Kim HS (2008). «Placenta-restricted expression of LTR- derived NOS3». Placenta 29 (7): 602-608. PMID 18474398. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2008.04.002.
Thomas JH, Schneider S (2011). «Coevolution of retroelements and tandem zinc finger genes». Genome Res 21 (11): 1800-12. PMC 3205565. PMID 21784874. doi:10.1101/gr.121749.111.
Bannert, Norbert and Kurth, Reinhard (Oct 2004). «Retroelements and the human genome: New perspectives on an old relation». Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101 (Suppl 2): 14572-14579. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10114572B. PMC 521986. PMID 15310846. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404838101.
Nelson PN, Carnegie PR, Martin J, Davari Ejtehadi H, Hooley P, Roden D, Rowland-Jones S, Warren P, Astley J (2003). «Demystified . . . Human endogenous retroviruses». Molecular Pathology 56 (1): 11-18. PMC 1187282. PMID 12560456. doi:10.1136/mp.56.1.11.
Singh SK (June 2007). «Endogenous retroviruses: suspects in the disease world». Future Microbiology 2 (3): 269-75. PMID 17661701. doi:10.2217/17460913.2.3.269.
Mameli G, Astone V, Arru G, Marconi S, Lovato L, Serra C, Sotgiu S, Bonetti B, Dolei A (Jan 2007). «Brains and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients hyperexpress MS-associated retrovirus/HERV-W endogenous retrovirus, but not human herpesvirus 6». J Gen Virol. 88 (Pt 1): 264-74. PMID 17170460. doi:10.1099/vir.0.81890-0.
Serra C, Mameli G, Arru G, Sotgiu S, Rosati G, Dolei A (Dec 2003). «In vitro modulation of the multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated retrovirus by cytokines: implications for MS pathogenesis». J Neurovirol. 9 (6): 637-43. PMID 14602576. doi:10.1080/714044485.
Belshaw R, Dawson AL, Woolven-Allen J, Redding J, Burt A, Tristem M (Oct 2005). «Genomewide Screening Reveals High Levels of Insertional Polymorphism in the Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family HERV-K(HML2): Implications for Present-Day Activity». J Virol. 79 (19): 12507-14. PMC 1211540. PMID 16160178. doi:10.1128/JVI.79.19.12507-12514.2005.
Jha AR, Pillai SK, York VA, Sharp ER, Storm EC, Wachter DJ, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Rosenberg MG, Nixon DF, Garrison KE (Aug 2009). «Cross-Sectional Dating of Novel Haplotypes of HERV-K 113 and HERV-K 115 Indicate These Proviruses Originated in Africa before Homo sapiens». Mol Biol Evol 26 (11): 2617-2626. PMC 2760466. PMID 19666991. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp180.
Jha AR, Nixon DF, Rosenberg MG, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Hudson RR, Garrison KE, Pillai SK (May 2011). «Human Endogenous Retrovirus K106 (HERV-K106) Was Infectious after the Emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans». PLoS ONE 6 (5): e20234. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620234J. PMC 3102101. PMID 21633511. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020234.
Bieniasz, Paul; Lee, Young Nam (Jan 2007). «Reconstitution of an infectious human endogenous retrovirus.». PLoS Pathog. 3 (1): e10. PMC 1781480. PMID 17257061. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030010.
Dewannieux M, Harper F, Richaud A, Letzelter C, Ribet D, Pierron G, Heidmann T (Dec 2006). «Identification of an infectious progenitor for the multiple-copy HERV-K human endogenous retroelements». Genome Res. 16 (12): 1548-56. PMC 1665638. PMID 17077319. doi:10.1101/gr.5565706. Resumen divulgativo – ScienceNOW Daily News.
Garrison KE, Jones RB, Meiklejohn DA, Anwar N, Ndhlovu LC, Chapman JM, Erickson AL, Agrawal A, Spotts G, Hecht FM, Rakoff-Nahoum S, Lenz J, Ostrowski MA, Nixon DF (Nov 2007). «T cell responses to human endogenous retroviruses in HIV-1 infection». PLoS Pathog. 3 (11): e165. PMC 2065876. PMID 17997601. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030165.

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Cotton, J. (2001). «Retroviruses from retrotransposons». Genome Biology 2 (2): 6. Archivado desde el original el 27 de junio de 2015. Consultado el 15 de abril de 2016. «It appears that the transition from nonviral retrotransposon to retrovirus has occurred independently at least eight times, and the source of the envelope gene responsible for infectious ability can now be traced to a virus in at least four of these instances. This suggests that potentially, any LTR retrotransposon can become a virus through the acquisition of existing viral genes.»

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Belshaw R, Pereira V, Katzourakis A, Talbot G, Paces J, Burt A, Tristem M (Apr 2004). «Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses». Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101 (14): 4894-99. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.4894B. PMC 387345. PMID 15044706. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307800101.
Pi W, Zhu X, Wu M, Wang Y, Fulzele S, Eroglu A, Ling J, Tuan D (July 2010). «Long-range function of an intergenic retrotransposon». PNAS 107 (29): 12992-12997. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10712992P. PMC 2919959. PMID 20615953. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004139107.
Bannert, Norbert and Kurth, Reinhard (Oct 2004). «Retroelements and the human genome: New perspectives on an old relation». Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101 (Suppl 2): 14572-14579. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10114572B. PMC 521986. PMID 15310846. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404838101.
Jha AR, Nixon DF, Rosenberg MG, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Hudson RR, Garrison KE, Pillai SK (May 2011). «Human Endogenous Retrovirus K106 (HERV-K106) Was Infectious after the Emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans». PLoS ONE 6 (5): e20234. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620234J. PMC 3102101. PMID 21633511. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020234.

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Belshaw R, Pereira V, Katzourakis A, Talbot G, Paces J, Burt A, Tristem M (Apr 2004). «Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses». Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101 (14): 4894-99. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.4894B. PMC 387345. PMID 15044706. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307800101.
Nelson PN; Hooley P; Roden D; Davari Ejtehadi H; Rylance P; Warren P; Martin J; Murray PG (October 2004). «Human endogenous retroviruses: Transposable elements with potential ?». Clinical and Experimental Immunology 138 (138(1)): 1-9. PMC 1809191. PMID 15373898. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02592.x. Consultado el 1 de febrero de 2014.
Li J, Akagi K, Hu Y, Trivett AL, Hlynialuk CJ, Swing DA, Volfovsky N, Morgan TC, Golubeva Y, Stephens RM, Smith DE, Symer DE (Mar 2012). «Mouse endogenous retroviruses can trigger premature transcriptional termination at a distance». Genome Res 22 (5): 870-84. PMC 3337433. PMID 22367191. doi:10.1101/gr.130740.111.
Spencer TE, Palmarini M (2012). «Endogenous retroviruses of sheep: a model system for understanding physiological adaptation to an evolving ruminant genome». J Reprod Dev 58 (1): 33-7. PMID 22450282. doi:10.1262/jrd.2011-026.
Black SG, Arnaud F, Palmarini M, Spencer TE (2010). «Endogenous Retroviruses in Trophoblast Differentiation and Placental Development». American Journal of Reproductive Immunology 64 (4): 255-264. PMID 20528833. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00860.x.
Ryan FP (December 2004). «Human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease: a symbiotic perspective». Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 97 (12): 560-5. PMC 1079666. PMID 15574851. doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.560.
Pi W, Zhu X, Wu M, Wang Y, Fulzele S, Eroglu A, Ling J, Tuan D (July 2010). «Long-range function of an intergenic retrotransposon». PNAS 107 (29): 12992-12997. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10712992P. PMC 2919959. PMID 20615953. doi:10.1073/pnas.1004139107.
van de Lagemaat LN, Landry JR, Mager DL, Medstrand P (Oct 2003). «Transposable elements in mammals promote regulatory variation and diversification of genes with specialized functions». Trends Genet 19 (10): 530-6. PMID 14550626. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2003.08.004.
Kovalskaya E, Buzdin A, Gogvadze E, Vinogradova T, Sverdlov E (2006). «Functional human endogenous retroviral LTR transcription start sites are located between the R and U5 regions». Virology 346 (2): 373-8. PMID 16337666. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2005.11.007.
Dunn CA, Romanish MT, Gutierrez LE, van de Lagemaat LN, Mager DL (2006). «Transcription of two human genes from a bidirectional endogenous retrovirus promoter». Gene 366 (2): 335-42. PMID 16288839. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.09.003.
Gogvadze E, Stukacheva E, Buzdin A, Sverdlov E (2009). «Human-specific modulation of transcriptional activity provided by endogenous retroviral insertions». J Virol 83 (12): 6098-105. PMC 2687385. PMID 19339349. doi:10.1128/JVI.00123-09.
Ting CN, Rosenberg MP, Snow CM, Samuelson LC, Meisler MH (1992). «Endogenous retroviral sequences are required for tissue-specific expression of a human salivary amylase gene». Genes Dev 6 (8): 1457-1465. PMID 1379564. doi:10.1101/gad.6.8.1457.
Cohen CJ, Lock WM, Mager DL (2009). «Endogenous retroviral LTRs as promoters for human genes: a critical assessment». Gene 448 (2): 105-14. PMID 19577618. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2009.06.020.
Bekpen C, Marques-Bonet T, Alkan C, Antonacci F, Leogrande MB, Ventura M, Kidd JM, Siswara P, Howard JC, Eichler EE (2009). «Death and resurrection of the human IRGM gene». PLoS Genet 5 (3): e1000403. PMC 2644816. PMID 19266026. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000403.
Jern P, Coffin JM (2008). «Effects of Retroviruses on Host Genome Function». Annu Rev Genet 42: 709-32. PMID 18694346. doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.42.110807.091501.
Oliver KR, Greene WK (2011). «Mobile DNA and the TE-Thrust hypothesis: supporting evidence from the primates». Mob DNA 2 (1): 8. PMC 3123540. PMID 21627776. doi:10.1186/1759-8753-2-8.
Romanish MT, Lock WM, van de Lagemaat LN, Dunn CA, Mager DL (2007). «Repeated recruitment of LTR retrotransposons as promoters by the anti- apoptotic locus NAIP during mammalian evolution». PLoS Genet 3 (1): e10. PMC 1781489. PMID 17222062. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030010.
Huh JW, Ha HS, Kim DS, Kim HS (2008). «Placenta-restricted expression of LTR- derived NOS3». Placenta 29 (7): 602-608. PMID 18474398. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2008.04.002.
Thomas JH, Schneider S (2011). «Coevolution of retroelements and tandem zinc finger genes». Genome Res 21 (11): 1800-12. PMC 3205565. PMID 21784874. doi:10.1101/gr.121749.111.
Bannert, Norbert and Kurth, Reinhard (Oct 2004). «Retroelements and the human genome: New perspectives on an old relation». Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101 (Suppl 2): 14572-14579. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10114572B. PMC 521986. PMID 15310846. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404838101.
Nelson PN, Carnegie PR, Martin J, Davari Ejtehadi H, Hooley P, Roden D, Rowland-Jones S, Warren P, Astley J (2003). «Demystified . . . Human endogenous retroviruses». Molecular Pathology 56 (1): 11-18. PMC 1187282. PMID 12560456. doi:10.1136/mp.56.1.11.
Singh SK (June 2007). «Endogenous retroviruses: suspects in the disease world». Future Microbiology 2 (3): 269-75. PMID 17661701. doi:10.2217/17460913.2.3.269.
Mameli G, Astone V, Arru G, Marconi S, Lovato L, Serra C, Sotgiu S, Bonetti B, Dolei A (Jan 2007). «Brains and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients hyperexpress MS-associated retrovirus/HERV-W endogenous retrovirus, but not human herpesvirus 6». J Gen Virol. 88 (Pt 1): 264-74. PMID 17170460. doi:10.1099/vir.0.81890-0.
Serra C, Mameli G, Arru G, Sotgiu S, Rosati G, Dolei A (Dec 2003). «In vitro modulation of the multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated retrovirus by cytokines: implications for MS pathogenesis». J Neurovirol. 9 (6): 637-43. PMID 14602576. doi:10.1080/714044485.
Yolken R (Jun 2004). «Viruses and schizophrenia: a focus on herpes simplex virus». Herpes 11 (Suppl 2): 83A-88A. PMID 15319094.
Belshaw R, Dawson AL, Woolven-Allen J, Redding J, Burt A, Tristem M (Oct 2005). «Genomewide Screening Reveals High Levels of Insertional Polymorphism in the Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family HERV-K(HML2): Implications for Present-Day Activity». J Virol. 79 (19): 12507-14. PMC 1211540. PMID 16160178. doi:10.1128/JVI.79.19.12507-12514.2005.
Jha AR, Pillai SK, York VA, Sharp ER, Storm EC, Wachter DJ, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Rosenberg MG, Nixon DF, Garrison KE (Aug 2009). «Cross-Sectional Dating of Novel Haplotypes of HERV-K 113 and HERV-K 115 Indicate These Proviruses Originated in Africa before Homo sapiens». Mol Biol Evol 26 (11): 2617-2626. PMC 2760466. PMID 19666991. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp180.
Jha AR, Nixon DF, Rosenberg MG, Martin JN, Deeks SG, Hudson RR, Garrison KE, Pillai SK (May 2011). «Human Endogenous Retrovirus K106 (HERV-K106) Was Infectious after the Emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans». PLoS ONE 6 (5): e20234. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...620234J. PMC 3102101. PMID 21633511. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020234.
Bieniasz, Paul; Lee, Young Nam (Jan 2007). «Reconstitution of an infectious human endogenous retrovirus.». PLoS Pathog. 3 (1): e10. PMC 1781480. PMID 17257061. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030010.
Dewannieux M, Harper F, Richaud A, Letzelter C, Ribet D, Pierron G, Heidmann T (Dec 2006). «Identification of an infectious progenitor for the multiple-copy HERV-K human endogenous retroelements». Genome Res. 16 (12): 1548-56. PMC 1665638. PMID 17077319. doi:10.1101/gr.5565706. Resumen divulgativo – ScienceNOW Daily News.
Garrison KE, Jones RB, Meiklejohn DA, Anwar N, Ndhlovu LC, Chapman JM, Erickson AL, Agrawal A, Spotts G, Hecht FM, Rakoff-Nahoum S, Lenz J, Ostrowski MA, Nixon DF (Nov 2007). «T cell responses to human endogenous retroviruses in HIV-1 infection». PLoS Pathog. 3 (11): e165. PMC 2065876. PMID 17997601. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030165.

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Dewannieux M, Harper F, Richaud A, Letzelter C, Ribet D, Pierron G, Heidmann T (Dec 2006). «Identification of an infectious progenitor for the multiple-copy HERV-K human endogenous retroelements». Genome Res. 16 (12): 1548-56. PMC 1665638. PMID 17077319. doi:10.1101/gr.5565706. Resumen divulgativo – ScienceNOW Daily News.

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Yolken R (Jun 2004). «Viruses and schizophrenia: a focus on herpes simplex virus». Herpes 11 (Suppl 2): 83A-88A. PMID 15319094.

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Cotton, J. (2001). «Retroviruses from retrotransposons». Genome Biology 2 (2): 6. Archivado desde el original el 27 de junio de 2015. Consultado el 15 de abril de 2016. «It appears that the transition from nonviral retrotransposon to retrovirus has occurred independently at least eight times, and the source of the envelope gene responsible for infectious ability can now be traced to a virus in at least four of these instances. This suggests that potentially, any LTR retrotransposon can become a virus through the acquisition of existing viral genes.»