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Michael Tristem
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 45
Citations - 4181
Michael Tristem is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endogenous retrovirus & Paleovirology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 45 publications receiving 3918 citations.
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Human endogenous retrovirus type I-related viruses have an apparently widespread distribution within vertebrates.
TL;DR: It is shown that retroviruses with significant homology to the human endogenous retrovirus type I (HERV-I) are present within the genomes of fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals and that they may well be widespread within many vertebrates.
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Identification of multiple Gypsy LTR-retrotransposon lineages in vertebrate genomes.
TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses demonstrate that although there are several distinct lineages of vertebrate vertebrate gypsy LTR-retrotransposons, the majority clusters into one monophyletic clade.
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Identification of an ancient endogenous retrovirus, predating the divergence of the placental mammals
TL;DR: This study describes, for the first time, a retroviral orthologue predating the divergence of placental mammals, giving it a minimum age of 104–110 Myr, and other orthologous selfish genetic elements (SGEs), inserted into the ERV sequence, provide evidence for the oldest individual mammalian-wide interspersed repeat and medium-reiteration frequency interSpersed repeat mammalian repeats, with the same minimum age.
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Characterization of the ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase gene from Mamestra brassicae nucleopolyhedrovirus.
TL;DR: The ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase (egt) gene of Mamestra brassicae multinucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (MbM NPV) has been cloned and characterized and phylogenies support the classification of MbMNPV as a group II NPV that is most closely related to Spodoptera exigua MNPV.
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Effects of Recombination Rate on Human Endogenous Retrovirus Fixation and Persistence
TL;DR: It is shown that, within humans, gene density and not recombination rate correlates with fixation of endogenous retroviruses, whereas the local recombinations rate determines their persistence in a full-length state.