Analyzing diversity of reverse-transcriptase-containing viruses through global metagenomics

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Jan 10, 2025, 4:59 am424 pts
Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., diversity-generating retroelements in bacteriophages). In contrast to retroviruses, bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) use RT not…

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