My life while the world spins madly on...

Thoughts arising while working as a scientist or just randomly spinning from my brain.

I don't give a damn, I'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all

[This and the section title borrowed from the Weepies - great lyrics.]

Everything here is just what I think and does not represent opinion of my employer or anybody else. See the Impressum.

Thursday, 2 May 2013

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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