In a companion study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the team, in collaboration with mathematics and bioinformatics specialists at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, addressed invertebrate extinction globally. (sciencedaily.com)
His team included UW bioinformatics specialists David Gordon and John Huddleston, as well as postdoctoral fellows, Mark Chaisson, Chris Hill and Zev Kronenberg. (sciencedaily.com)
To try to pin an age on these fossil genes and determine when these ancient infections happened, Taylor and his co-authors — virologist Jeremy Bruenn, and bioinformatics specialist Robert Leach, both also of SUNY Buffalo — compared the viral remnants in different species and found they were nearly identical, indicating that they infected mammals only once early in evolution, and then the viral remnants were passed down as the groups diverged. (sciencemag.org)