Discovering retroviruses : beacons in the biosphere /
When invading a host cell, viruses seize cell machinery to make copies of their own genes. The immune system recognizes the invasion. In contrast, retroviruses colonize host cells through the process of reverse transcriptase. Retroviruses open host cell DNA and graft in their retroviral RNA, integra...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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