Not exact matches
Of individuals with recent - onset schizophrenia, 29 % exhibited signs of a particular family of
retroviruses known
as Human
Endogenous Retrovirus W (HERV - W), compared with none of the control patients.
This study represents the only research done so far on
endogenous retroviruses of New World bats and suggests there is still much to be learned about vampire bats
as viral reservoirs.
Some of the first genes to start expressing themselves again are former viruses turned into transposable elements known
as human
endogenous retroviruses, particularly one called HERVK, Wysocka and colleagues found.
They unearthed genomic fossils for so - called
endogenous retroviruses in highly diverse hosts, such
as ray - finned fish and amphibians that had no previous link to
retroviruses.