Understanding every step in the life cycle of a virus is crucial for identifying potential targets for treatment. Now, scientists were able to show how a virus from the retrovirus family - the same ...

Bats have long been known as important hosts of zoonotic viral pathogens. Zoonotic viruses that bats transmit are capable of infecting humans and have caused devastating infections throughout the ...

Both the retrotransposon and retrovirus life cycles are inherently error-prone and mutagenic. Once a copy is replicated and inserted, it likely displays neutral or nearly neutral rates of decay over ...