I wonder why then, like, 99% of human cases of avian H1N1 2.3.4.4b are asymptomatic?

As to the origin, ssDNA viruses definitely diverged from plasmids, as both have the same replication mechanism. For tailed phages the situation is less clear. They might have arisen modularity from carboxisomes and injection systems but that’s way too speculative. Read Koonin’s works for more

Conferring genes by viruses is quite common. There was another study in NatMicro on 20 years of evolution of cyanophages. There, auxiliary metabolic genes are seen in only 10% of phage population. So the carriers are obviously struggling but cannot go extinct since econiche became dependent on them

Reminds me of a situation with staphylococcal pathogenicity islands - also viral parasitic elements. Great to know that this behavior is also common in extreme environments. Cook stuff indeed!

Alright, so it’s not just Leishmania guyanensis and it’s totivirus. Good to know, thanks for a great work!

Which begs the philosophical question: who am I?

Same city definitely)) idk, few kilometers. Just to be clear, I’m not a proponent of lab-leak conspiracy, only trying to arrive at some parsimonious explanation. For that reason I’d better exclude the institute from the chain of events. The question is how..?

>>> I imagine, that some “farmers” traveled to a big city to sell of the meat, which is basically a byproduct of a fur farm. And they were carrying human-adapted SARS-Cov2 with them in the process. The question remains, why Wuhan and why so close to the goddamned institute?

Aha! So that means that the virus was brought there by a salesman. This actually makes a lot of sense to me since current zoonotic spillover theory requires regular contacts of humans with wild animals, for which Chinese fur farms are the perfect place >>>

Sorry, I should’ve checked!)) I’ll go through the second paper and get back with any further questions, if I may!

They demonstrated a clear gradient of viral RNA towards the exotic meat stands with both ancestral SARS-Cov2 strains equally represented. Forensically, the evidence cannot get any stronger than that. The only thing they failed to find was stat.correlation between amounts of vRNA and host mitoDNA.

Didn’t 2024 Cell paper put an end to the lab leak hypothesis? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Sometimes

Don’t invite there journalist, obviously 😅

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Memory recording and memory retrieval are two different processes

Hi! I got here from one of the Nature briefings. I guess, I’ll stick around)))

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And it’s probably not the case, that those previously drained brains are returning where they originally came from…