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Retroviral Sex and Escape

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In the late 1960s, virologists made the surprising discovery that retroviruses exhibit a form of sexual reproduction. Humans are genetically “diploid”, which means that, except in germline cells, they maintain two sets of genetic information (in DNA, on paired chromosomes), and of course they reproduce sexually.

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Wick, W.D., Yang, O.O. (2013). Retroviral Sex and Escape. In: War in the Body. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7294-0_10

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