Viruses invent proteins while trying to fight their hosts. In this article published in PLoS Computational Biology, Angelo Pavesi, David Karlin and me show how we can infer the ancestry of gene innovation.
A special issue on Paleovirology edited by Aris Katzourakis. In the issue we have written a review on the potential roles of Endogenous Retroviruses in human physiology and disease.
An interesting view of how close we are in finding the animal source of HCV by Oliver Pybus and Rebecca Gray in Nature.
An interesting perspective on pandemic influenza in New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1307009?query=featured_home
An interesting perspective on paleovirology in Science by Stoye and Weiss. Enjoy!