New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Human endogenous retroviruses that colonized vertebrate DNA millions of ... Learn about our Editorial Policies. Over the course of evolution, several groups of ancient viruses colonized our ancestors’ ...

Retroviruses are a sub-category of oncoviruses that include the lentiviruses. Retroviruses are negative single-stranded RNA viruses in which tRNA serves as a primer for the mRNA synthesis. The mRNA is ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

But some ancient retroviruses gained the ability to infect germ cells ... ancient viral genes and better help researchers understand how the human body reacts to evolution alongside these vestiges of ...

Pre-clinical studies indicate that efficient retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells can be achieved by co-localizing retroviral particles and target ...

Our goal is to understand how virus evolution is influenced by genetic variation both within host populations (polymorphism) and between host species (divergence). Current projects in the laboratory ...

A unique genetic adaptation in koalas north of the Brisbane River in Australia was offering new hope for the species' ...

Koalas infected with the retrovirus are at a higher risk of chlamydia, which has devastated populations in Queensland and New South Wales. The virus has also been linked to lymphomas that have caused ...