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Sars virus could be the result of a merger
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Tim Tyler
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:21 pm    Post subject: Sars virus could be the result of a merger Reply with quote
``The Sars virus could be the result of a merger between viruses carried
by birds and mammals, say researchers.''

[...]

Lead researcher Professor David Guttman, an expert in evolutionary
genetics, found that about half the DNA in the Sars virus looked like
coronavirus sequences taken from mammals.

But the other half looked liked coronoviruses normally found in birds.

And a key gene in the virus, known as the spike gene, seemed to be a mix
of the two.''

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3323453.stm
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