Lijing Tang
@lijingtang93.bsky.social
Postdoc at Uppsala University-bovine genomics, transposable elements, imprinting genes, seasonal reproduction of herring
Reposted by Lijing Tang
In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
March 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2