Lost Sex in Roscoff

Will be going to a meeting in beautiful Brittany this week. Jacques Monod conference on the evolution of sex. Really looking forward to it, also as I have not been to France and especially Brittany for some time now. But as usual and as a proper scientist the poster is still in the making with hardly any time left...

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puuuuuh submitted again

keep your fingers crossed, keep your fingers crossed, keep your fingers crossed.....

this biosphere is owned viruses

 

On Tuesday Eugene Koonin was here in Kolonia and gave a great talk on viruses and our virus world. Actually I thought nematodes own this planet, but I seem wrong there. And there are crazy things: viruses are host to their own phages, virophages and while our genome is made up to a large part of virus derived transposons there are also transposons in viral gnomes, the transpoviron. See my notes below, easy, huh?!

 

 

 

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