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Meet your viral ancestors – how bornaviruses have been infiltrating our genomes for 40 million years
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Cast your mind back 40 million years and think about your ancestors. You’re probably picturing creatures that looked like a bit like today’s monkeys, but they’re only part of your family tree. To see your other ancestors, you’d have to whip out an imaginary microscope. Meet your great-great-great-etc-grandviruses. The human genome is littered with the…