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SUBMITTER: Chen DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4895215 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Dong-Sheng DS Wu Yi-Quan YQ Zhang Wei W Jiang San-Jie SJ Chen Shan-Ze SZ
Scientific reports 20160607
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) drives the evolution of recipient organism particularly if it provides a novel function which enhances the fitness or its adaption to the environment. Virus-host co-evolution is attractive for studying co-evolutionary processes, since viruses strictly replicate inside of the host cells and thus their evolution is inexorably tangled with host biology. HGT, as a mechanism of co-evolution between human and viruses, has been widely documented, however, the roles HGT pl ...[more]