Evolutionarily, they also have connections to mobile genetic elements, which makes things quite murky (and also led to some MGE being reclassiified as viruses - https://t.co/bQAqqMlw1q).
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Conservation of major and minor jelly-roll capsid proteins in Polinton (Maverick) transposons suggests that they... http://t.co/nr6gZzcfGY
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Conservation of capsid proteins in Polinton (Maverick) transposons suggests that they are bona fide viruses http://t.co/kIonZQO9dW
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(2/2) More from Koonin: as for the only eukaryotic self-synthesizing DNA transposon - it's actually a virus http://t.co/mp0UheggqU #virology