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Quoted in “Is Most of Your DNA Junk?”
A. Luganini and G. Gribaudo, “Retroviruses of the Human Virobiota: The Recycling of Viral Genes and the Resulting Advantages for Human Hosts During Evolution,” Frontiers in Microbiology, May 28, 2020 →.
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Brives, “Pluribiosis and the Never-Ending Microgeohistories.”
