Maria P. Erazo-Garcia

A chimeric infection program and epigenetic conflict underpin endogenous giant virus latency

Giant endogenous viral elements (GEVEs) are ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes, but how the virus adapts to the host and is capable of reactivation despite host defense mechanisms remains unclear. Here we examined this process in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its latent giant virus, punuivirus, which is in...