Hot Spring Yields New Hybrid Viral Genome
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
In the hostile environment of a bubbling volcanic hot spring, a team of researchers at Portland State University in Oregon has discovered a new viral genome that seems to be the product of recombination between a DNA virus and an RNA virus -- a natural chimaera not seen before. Their findings appeared on 19 April in the journal Biology Direct . [More]