Researchers in the Department of Algal Development and Evolution have discovered that giant viruses can lie dormant within a multicellular host genome, reactivate on cue, and be inherited like a super-gene. Read the full press release here: tinyurl.com/2v9csdbf
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ge...