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The evolution of novel fungal genes from non-retroviral RNA viruses

Derek J Taylor* and Jeremy Bruenn

BMC Biology 2009, 7:88 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-88

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Taming of the shrewd: novel eukaryotic genes from RNA viruses

Eugene V Koonin BMC Biology 2010, 8:2 (12 January 2010)

Eugene Koonin comments on the recent finding that integrated copies of non-retroviral RNA virus genes are widely spread in fungal genomes and proposes a role for these acquired genes in antiviral immunity.