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#MetagenomicsMonday 🧬
Viruses are crucial in carbon cycling in lake sediments, impacting future climate change effects on freshwater ecosystems.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2202261119
SPAAM-communityJul 22, 2024
#MetagenomicsMonday 🧬 Ancient viral DNA reveals historical #pathogens aiding understanding of virus evolution.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063219/
An Adagio for Viruses, Played Out on Ancient DNA

Studies of ancient DNA have transformed our understanding of human evolution. Paleogenomics can also reveal historic and prehistoric agents of disease, including endemic, epidemic, and pandemic pathogens. Viruses—and in particular those with single- ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Phys.orgOct 27, 2022

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-viral-dna-human-genome.html Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-viral-dna-human-genome.html

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Ancient #viralDNA in #humangenome guards against infections @cornell @sciencemagazine https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7871 https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-viral-dna-human-genome.html