Pandoravirus celtis illustrates the microevolution processes at work in the giant Pandoraviridae genomes
M. LEGENDRE, J.-M. ALEMPIC, N. PHILIPPE, A. LARTIGUE, S. JEUDY, O. POIROT, N. T. TA, S. NIN, Y. COUTE, C. ABERGEL, 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.
bioRxiv · Feb 11, 2019Evolutionary Biology