"**Interrogating 1000 insect genomes for NUMTs: A risk assessment for estimates of species richness"**
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286620
#numt #pseudogene #richness #insects #Genomics #diversity
A nice new #paper where I have played a small part. An extremely surprising finding where mutants in the 5S #ribosomal #RNA #transcription factor #GTF3A causes enhanced #susceptibility to #HSV #virus #infection, leading to #encephalitis. A #pseudogene #transcribed is a #ligand activating #RIG-I.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36399538/
#fediscience #immunology #science #PID #genetics #signaling #herpes #health
#health #herpes #signaling #genetics #pid #science #immunology #Fediscience #rig #ligand #transcribed #pseudogene #encephalitis #infection #virus #hsv #susceptibility #gtf3a #transcription #rna #ribosomal #paper