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Smug Viruses (lemmy.world)
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[–] DarkCloud 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Bats use heat to fly off their viruses, they get pretty bad ones, but when they're flying Bats get really hot. So it burns them off.

Also, some viruses have evolved into us and ended up serving functions in the human bawdy.

[–] disguy_ovahea 27 points 2 months ago

Yup. Up to 8% of the human genome is comprised of ancient viruses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/17366

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

As an example we have reverse transcriptase that is derived from viruses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a Kurzegadt video about the virome recently

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

However, I can't find it now and nor can I spell their name, so apologies on both counts

[–] Entheon 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe you're referring to https://youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

[–] Serinus 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they're on https://nebula.tv too, if you prefer that to YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I can't see them on nebula, I just looked on the nebula app, but also on their Reddit and website

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Another example; mammals probably developed pregnancy using an Autoimmune virus' genes in the placenta to prevent the fetus from being destroyed by the immune system.