Sentences with phrase «transcriptase gene in the genome»

However, even with a reverse transcriptase gene in the genome, the RNA may not replicate, but instead could simply help organize the centrosome or hold it together, he cautions.

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Their discovery of NIRVs in mammalian genomes corroborates a study in the 7 January issue of Nature in which John Coffin of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and colleagues reported that another group of RNA viruses that lack reverse transcriptase, bornavirus, can integrate their genes into mammals.