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Showing posts with label Viral evolution. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Viral evolution. Show all posts

What can flies tell us about #virusevolution?

Some of the fly species used in this study (thanks to Ben Longdon). What influences whether a parasite - for example a virus - wil...

Uncovering a missing link in viral evolution - how did some get so big?

Vietnamese jungle. Credit: FLETCHER & BAYLIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Out of the dense, tropical rainforest of Northern Vietnam,...

Where did our smallpox vaccine come from?

Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination Bring to mind the now famous 'first scientific exploration of vaccination', when, in ...

On the origins of smallpox - where and when did variola virus emerge?

2011 may be the year where the last known officially acknowledged stocks of the deadly smallpox virus, variola are destroyed - a virus that...

The molecular domestication of amphibian retroviruses - do they play aphysiological role?

Xenopus tropicalis - do recently identified ERVs play a functional role? We mostly think of viruses of being ‘bad’ and ‘dangerous’...

Seeing the big picture of RNA virus evolution

From both a medical and a scientific viewpoint , the evolution of viruses is extremely important to us; viral adaptation to their ever c...

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