This unique discovery has been largely ignored for the past few years, despite its great significance:

> [An] IAPV fragment has been found integrated into the bee genome (Maori et al., 2007), and we therefore tentatively assumed that it carries sequences serving as 'hot spots' for recombination.  Viral recombinants are known mostly between segments of the same virus, but recombination among related viruses has been previously recorded (Nagy & Simon, 1997). Here, we demonstrate a similar case of an IAPV–KBV 'hybrid' 

> RNA recombination may elicit protein divergence with obvious evolutionary impact. Furthermore, a reciprocal exchange between host DNA and viral RNA (or a DNA version of a recombinant viral RNA) has been demonstrated (Tanne & Sela, 2005; Maori et al., 2007). RNA recombination may engender divergence in host genes, and the evolution of both virus and host may be interrelated and linked to the very same eliciting process. 

Journal of General Virology (2007), 88, 3428–3438

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Access BEE-L directly at:
http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L