Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Pandoravirus celtis illustrates the microevolution processes at work in the giant Pandoraviridae genomes
M. LEGENDRE, J.-M. ALEMPIC, N. PHILIPPE…·J.-M. CLAVERIE
The paper analyzes the Pandoravirus celtis genome to test the hypothesis that new protein-coding genes arise de novo from non-coding regions, finding ORFans and transposase insertions.
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00430