Since I last checked, “slime mold” has gone from taxon to lifestyle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold I hope this results in greater acceptance of our
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@Meaningness As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERV#Human_endogenous_retroviruses … (humans 8%, some other mammals much higher). -
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@Meaningness Just one virus that had gotten copied a zillion times. -
@St_Rev Well according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11523012 all eucaryotes are just one virus that got itself copied a lot.
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@Meaningness Don't have the reference and am going to mangle it but recently read some major land mammal genome was like 60% retrovirus.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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