[neverdem]

Humans carry in their genome the relics of an animal virus that infected their forerunners at least 40 million years ago, according to research published Wednesday by the British science journal Nature.

I wonder if this is a press release. There's nothing at Nature yet.

[decimon]

There's nothing at Nature yet.

It might be there.

"The research, which appeared online today in Nature, offer the first evidence of such non-retroviral sequence incorporation into mammalian genomes — and suggests bornaviruses infected some mammalian species tens of millions of years ago."

http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/mammalian-genomes-house-non-retroviral-rna-virus-sequences-study-finds

"Researchers report in this week's issue of Nature that bornaviruses, a group of negative sense RNA viruses, integrated into the DNA of humans and other primates, rodents, and elephants millions of years ago."

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56239/