African swine fever virus-like integrated elements in a soft tick genome - an ancient virus vector arms race?
J. H. Forth, L. F. Forth, S. J. Lycett, L. Bell-Sakyi, G. M. Keil, S. Blome, S. Calvignac-Spencer, A. Wissgott, J. Krause, D. Hoeper, H. Kampen, M. Beer
The paper identifies ASFV-like integrated elements in soft tick genomes, suggesting an ancient co-evolutionary arms race between ticks and ASFV.
bioRxiv · Mar 8, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology