Episode #4: Paleovirology in Australian marsupials - Emma Harding

ResearchBytes di Lachlan Gray, Felix Kohane and Imtiaz Desai

Note sull'episodio

Paleovirology is an emerging field which seeks to understand why ancient viruses have inserted fragments of themselves into the genomes of many different species. Emma Harding is a UNSW PhD candidate who is researching these viral fossils to improve the conservation of Australian marsupials such as the Koala and Tasmanian devil.

Literature links:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172163

https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/7/2/veab076/6362200

Parole chiave
bioinformaticsvirusesmarsupials